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Myelin
Myelin: a lipid-rich (fatty) tissue layer formed around nerve cells. It acts as an electrical insulator, facilitating conduction in axons. In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the immune system attacks the central nervous systems resulting in damaged myelin sheaths.
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AUG 26, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have discovered a regulatory process that controls the maturation of brain cells. This regulation seems to b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 19, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 17, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the myelin sheath, an insulation that surrounds nerve cells, is sl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 12, 2024Neuroscience
Researchers investigated how a 40Hz light and sound therapy helps preserve myelin in patients with Alzheimer's disease ( ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 05, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
After decades of effort, scientists have made real progress in understanding multiple sclerosis. While researchers knew ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 08, 2024Drug Discovery & Development
This study unraveled an exciting and unexplored facet of MS treatmentWritten By: Amielle MorenoFEB 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an inflammatory disease that affects nerves. It is thought to be an autoimmune disorder ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 13, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the protective coating that insulated neurons, called the myel ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 06, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Multiple sclerosis (MS) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350269 i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 10, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can cause a huge range of symptoms in different patients, and the severity can vary dramatically ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 01, 2023Neuroscience
Perhaps the presence of damaged myelin inflicts axonal damage, contrary to previous assumptions.Written By: Amielle MorenoJUN 06, 2023Immunology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects roughly 2.5 million people worldwide and is a neurological disease affecting the brain a ...Written By: Brian G. MorrealeAPR 19, 2023Neuroscience
Newly discovered areas of the motor cortex will re-write researchWritten By: Amielle MorenoFEB 23, 2023Immunology
Several reports have detailed new ways to treat multiple sclerosis, a disorder in which the immune system attacks the my ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 11, 2022Immunology
A bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant has been an effective but risky way to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), and no ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 19, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
An experimental cancer drug can regenerate damaged nerves following spinal trauma in mice and rats. The corresponding re ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 28, 2022Immunology
Administration of an inflammation-mediating lipid has shown promise in reducing multiple sclerosis-related inflammation ...Written By: Annie LennonMAR 07, 2022Neuroscience
A protein found in cow’s milk can trigger inflammation in the surrounding areas of neurons in mice, and may have i ...Written By: Annie LennonFEB 15, 2022Microbiology
Many different research studies from groups all over the world have now provided indisputable evidence of the importance ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 13, 2022Microbiology
Recent studies have shown that an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection can be a precursor to multiple sclerosis; large, po ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 30, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
We still don't know exactly what causes multiple sclerosis (MS), or many other disorders that involve inflammation in th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 22, 2021Microbiology
Gut bacteria perform some essential functions. They help us digest certain foods and absorb nutrients. The community of ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have discovered a regulatory process that controls the maturation of brain cells. This regulation seems to b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 17, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the myelin sheath, an insulation that surrounds nerve cells, is sl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 12, 2024
Neuroscience
Researchers investigated how a 40Hz light and sound therapy helps preserve myelin in patients with Alzheimer's disease (
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 05, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
After decades of effort, scientists have made real progress in understanding multiple sclerosis. While researchers knew
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 08, 2024
Drug Discovery & Development
This study unraveled an exciting and unexplored facet of MS treatment
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
FEB 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an inflammatory disease that affects nerves. It is thought to be an autoimmune disorder
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the protective coating that insulated neurons, called the myel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 06, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Multiple sclerosis (MS) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350269 i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can cause a huge range of symptoms in different patients, and the severity can vary dramatically
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2023
Neuroscience
Perhaps the presence of damaged myelin inflicts axonal damage, contrary to previous assumptions.
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
JUN 06, 2023
Immunology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects roughly 2.5 million people worldwide and is a neurological disease affecting the brain a
...
Written By:
Brian G. Morreale
APR 19, 2023
Neuroscience
Newly discovered areas of the motor cortex will re-write research
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
FEB 23, 2023
Immunology
Several reports have detailed new ways to treat multiple sclerosis, a disorder in which the immune system attacks the my
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 11, 2022
Immunology
A bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant has been an effective but risky way to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), and no
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
An experimental cancer drug can regenerate damaged nerves following spinal trauma in mice and rats. The corresponding re
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 28, 2022
Immunology
Administration of an inflammation-mediating lipid has shown promise in reducing multiple sclerosis-related inflammation
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 07, 2022
Neuroscience
A protein found in cow’s milk can trigger inflammation in the surrounding areas of neurons in mice, and may have i
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
FEB 15, 2022
Microbiology
Many different research studies from groups all over the world have now provided indisputable evidence of the importance
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 13, 2022
Microbiology
Recent studies have shown that an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection can be a precursor to multiple sclerosis; large, po
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 30, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
We still don't know exactly what causes multiple sclerosis (MS), or many other disorders that involve inflammation in th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2021
Microbiology
Gut bacteria perform some essential functions. They help us digest certain foods and absorb nutrients. The community of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch