When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

For some creatures, a lost body part is not necessarily a permanent affair. Salamanders can regrow limbs and zebrafish can ...

Fruit flies can fly or walk forward at high speeds in a perfect straight line. That’s because, at every moment, a network of neurons in their brain detects even the slightest deviation from their path ...

I drew a diagram to show him how a blob of his spinal cord had herniated through a defect in his dura (its covering) and that the forward traction on the nerves was causing the leg to drag. Being a ...

Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

Nerve or neuropathic pain has long been a tricky condition to treat effectively. However, a new study has comprehensively ...

By Dr. John Villano University of Kentucky Each year, thousands of adults are diagnosed with tumors that form in the brain or ...