A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage ...

Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that helps protect the brain function of animals that live in high-altitude, low-oxygen environments... | Genetics And Genomics ...

What Is a Myelin Sheath? Myelin sheaths are sleeves of fatty tissue that protect your nerve cells. These cells are part of your central nervous system, which carries messages back and forth between ...

In long-lived animals, renewed but thin myelin sheaths are enough to restore the impaired nervous system and can do so for years after the onset of disease, scientists have discovered. In the central ...

Researchers have pinpointed a gene mutation associated with survival at high altitudes that could restore myelin to damaged ...

Scientists have discovered that a genetic change found in animals living at very high altitudes may help repair damage in the human nervous system. The finding could eventually lead to new treatments ...

In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins around nerve fibers helps speed the electrical signals or nerve impulses that ...

A protein that plays a role in muscular dystrophies also may be involved in peripheral neuropathy – disorders of the nerves that carry messages between the brain and the rest of the body. The findings ...

MADISON, Wisconsin - In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins around nerve fibers helps speed the electrical signals or ...