When the liver fails, toxins—such as ammonia—that should be filtered from the blood build up and reach the brain. The result ...

The symposium ‘The Troubled Journey of the Menopausal Transition’ brought together leading experts to explore the complex ...

When the liver fails, toxins – such as ammonia – that should be filtered from the blood build up and reach the brain. The result is hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a devastating neurological complication ...

Advances in developmental neuroscience have fundamentally reshaped thinking about neural repair. Mechanisms that govern neuronal fate specification, brain ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

One of the challenges with the sheer availability of food in today’s world is that lots of us end up spending many of our waking hours eating. Whether it’s full meals, snacks or desserts, scientists ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have created new "hybrid" immune ...

Shifting brain glucose levels act as a metabolic switch that directs OPC proliferation and myelin formation, revealing a mechanism with developmental and clinical implications.

Blocking energy production pathways in an aggressive type of brain cancer in children could be a promising new therapeutic ...

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional ...