Researchers find early Alzheimer's changes in the gut, opening a surprising path toward earlier detection and treatment.

The aging brain frequently harbors multiple protein pathologies that contribute to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other ...

In mice, a brain protein called Arc helps spread toxic molecules from sick brain cells to healthy ones. If therapies could be ...

Data from a new mouse model support the long-standing hypothesis that celiac disease begins within the gut wall, as transglutaminase 2 (TG2)-specific B cells in Peyer’s patches sample perfused ...

During development of the digestive system, a complex network of nerves forms around it, creating a "second brain" - the enteric nervous system (ENS) - which controls the movement of food and waste ...

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered a key mechanism that protects mice from developing a human disease of aging, and begins to explain the wide spectrum of disease severity often seen in ...

To answer this question, the researchers, led by neuroscientist and study coauthor Pei Zhang at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, took a mouse model of pre-symptomatic Parkinson’s disease ...