NervGen will meet with the FDA early next year to align on a regulatory path forward for NVG-291 in chronic spinal cord injury. NervGen’s investigational peptide therapeutic NVG-291 significantly ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper appearing in Cell Reports, ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University ...

"Nervous Systems: Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church, and Politics" By Sara Billups, Baker Books, 225 pages Sara Billups, a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator, ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Billions of nerve cells send signals coursing through our bodies, serving as conduits through which the brain performs its essential functions. For millennia physicians thought damage to nerves was ...

Kelley Mack died at the age of 33 in August 2025 after battling a rare form of brain cancer. Her acting career had just gotten traction, with her performance in The Walking Dead being praised by fans.

In a culture in which everything feels urgent, social media is filled with bad news, and our work days feel endless, something’s bound to give. Often, that thing is our nervous systems. In fact, if ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The discovery could unlock new ways to treat nerve injuries and even restore ...

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