Nature Cell Biology - Spinal muscular atrophy is caused by mutations in the survival motor neurons gene, SMN1. The SMN protein localizes to both the cytoplasm and the nuclear bodies. One hallmark ...

preventing healthy cells from reading the messages they ... Drugs that "switch on" vitamin A in the body may also help stave off conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND). The largest-ever ...

Although a motor neuron pool innervating one muscle represents a tightly clustered cell body aggregate in a defined position in the spinal cord in wild types, corresponding cell bodies in Foxp1 ...

Regular and strenuous exercise increases the risk of motor neurone disease in people ... of the biggest and most oxygen-demanding cells in the body. This may lead to damage and eventually cause ...

Although physicist Stephen Hawking lived for more than half a century with a rare form of motor neurone disease. You are more microbe than human - if you count all the cells in your body ...

Motor neurone ... by other brain cells. There has been progress in understanding how this might happen. In March 2023, Harvard researchers published a paper, in the journal Neuron, which linked ...

Only in cells affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is ... than 0.00001% ...

Grey matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting ... while males on average had larger volumes in grey matter areas involved in sensory ...