Ex-rugby union star Ed Slater is celebrating raising more than £100,000 in grants for people impacted by motor neurone ...

A Sunderland musician diagnosed with motor neurone disease is releasing a single to fund research into the illness.

People in Inverclyde are being urged to move quickly to secure their place at a special dinner raising funds for research into motor neurone ...

A brave mum-of-three is raising awareness for a condition which will eventually 'rob' her of her ability to 'walk, talk, eat ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...

STAFF WRITERS A PLUNGE was taken at the Glengarry Hotel last Saturday (March 15), with locals taking the plunge [...] ...

Neurizon Therapeutics has submitted a formal request to the US FDA for advice on pharmacokinetic studies needed to lift hold ...

About 20 years ago, scientists discovered that skin cells could be converted into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can ...

Converting one type of cell to another - for example, a skin cell to a neuron - can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

MIT researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord ...