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A team of researchers in the United States and Japan reports that spinal cord stimulation (SCS) measurably decreased pain and reduced motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, both as a singular therapy and as a "salvage therapy" after deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapies were ineffective.

Scientists from Bochum (RUB), Düsseldorf (HHU), Jülich (FZJ), and Aachen (RWTH),
show significant similarities between the neocortex of mammals and sensory brain areas of birds: Both are wired in horizontal layers and vertical columns.

In an article published in Nature Genetics, researchers confirm that about 14% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a disabling brain disorder for which there are no cures, may be linked to a patient’s genes and suggest that many of those genes control how brain circuits become wired during early development.

We humans need oxygen to breathe - but for many microbes it is a deadly poison. That is why microorganisms have developed ways of rendering oxygen molecules harmless, the mechanism for which researchers have now deciphered.

The scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme "cocktail" which can digest plastic up to six times faster.

Scientists have demonstrated that by blocking the construction of nuclear pore complexes it was possible to shrink aggressive tumors in mice whilst leaving normal cells unaffected.

After an infection occurs, the immune system will memorize the pathogen meaning it can react promptly if reinfection with the same pathogen should occur. Now, scientists have deciphered new details of this process.

Introducing high doses of gluten from four months of age into infants’ diets could prevent them from developing coeliac disease, a study has found.

A new precision drug which stops cancer from repairing its DNA has shown promise in an early-stage clinical trial – highlighting the potential of a new class of drugs known as ATR inhibitors.

Scientists seek insight into what makes its cells tick. Caltech researchers have shown that a framework they developed, using a specialized type of microscopy, enables them to probe the metabolic processes inside cancer cells.