The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

Due to proteostasis stress induced by aging or disease, misfolded proteins can form toxic intermediate species of aggregates and eventually mature into less toxic inclusion bodies (IBs). Here, using a ...

Liver issues, including a buildup of fat in the liver, occur before the onset of neuromuscular disease, per a study in a mouse model of SMA.