Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

A look at Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), focusing on motor neuron degeneration, sporadic versus familial ...

A dad-of-three has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged just 39 – after losing grip in his left hand. Ryan Horsfall ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, the University of Copenhagen and Drexel University has developed AI ...

Adopting some of the strategies behind successfully treating the childhood disease spinal muscular atrophy may enable development of therapies to curb the muscle decline that accompanies aging, new ...

The test was developed by researchers at the US-based not-for-profit Brain Chemistry Labs, who analysed 788 blood samples – roughly half from patients with the disease and half from people without it.

MIT scientists find that motor neuron growth increased significantly over 5 days in response to biochemical (left) and mechanical (right) signals related to exercise. The green ball represents cluster ...

Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. MIT engineers have now found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual ...

For Sue Rogers, denial wasn’t a weakness, it was a way to keep living without the weight of what the future had in store.