The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Chronic ...

A genetic mutation that helps animals like yaks and Tibetan antelopes survive at high altitudes may hold the key to repairing nerve damage in conditions such as cerebral paralysis and multiple ...

Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that helps protect the brain function of animals that live in high-altitude, low-oxygen environments... | Genetics And Genomics ...

Scientists identify a high-altitude genetic mutation in yaks that produces ATDR, a Vitamin A metabolite that repairs myelin damage in MS and cerebral paralysis.

Scientists showed that a mutation in animals that live at high altitude promotes myelin regeneration, informing potential new ...

The discovery could open up new ways for treating diseases such as MS by leveraging molecules that are already present in the ...

Researchers have pinpointed a gene mutation associated with survival at high altitudes that could restore myelin to damaged ...

Scientists from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that a little-understood junction that connects neurons to oligodendrocyte precursor cells ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

A study led by Cambridge researchers has shed light on how neural stem cell grafts could help restore myelin in the central nervous system. The findings suggest that neural stem cell-based therapies ...