Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

I attended the Global Wellness Summit in Dubai (my 13th consecutive, I think), which focused on transformative technologies that are making wellness for an extended lifetime more attainable. The use ...

Your brain isn't lazy when it resists change... it's just running on autopilot, and you can learn to reprogram the flight ...

Researchers have developed intranasal spherical nucleic acids that activate the cGAS–STING pathway and reprogram the ...

When a neuron ages, it loses synaptic connections with other neurons, it is less able to transmit nerve impulses, and its metabolism is also altered. This process of neuronal ageing — inevitable with ...

One reason that chronic pain, mental or physical is consistently solvable is the brain’s property of neuroplasticity. Your brain physically constantly changes based on the nature of the sensory input.

Fasting has long been sold as a shortcut to weight loss, but a growing body of research suggests the real action may be ...