A recent study by researchers at McMaster University has made significant strides in understanding how to prevent cancer from spreading to the brain. By focusing on a specific enzyme known as IMPDH, scientists aim to shift cancer treatment from merely managing symptoms to actively preventing metastasis. This breakthrough could change the landscape of cancer care… Read More »
Staying fit as you age is about far more than aesthetics. Increasing research shows that maintaining healthy levels of body fat and greater muscle mass has an effect on your brain health and even your rate of cognitive aging. It’s known, for instance, that being obese in midlife and early late-life is associated with worse… Read More »
U.S. scientists have achieved the previously unthinkable task of remotely controlling the brains of living beings. The beings, in this case, are genetically engineered fruit flies and the neurons responsible for causing the flies to spread their wings.1 But this is only the beginning. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has a… Read More »
Dr. Eddie Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School helped Pancho, a man paralyzed since age 20, speak through an implant in his brain that connects to a computer program.Credit…Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak In a once… Read More »