Chet Moritz and colleagues from the University of Washington, however, went for individual cells --- by teaching monkeys to control the firing of a single neuron in their motor cortex, using ...

Phil Such worked as a sport sub-editor specialising in rugby on the Daily Mail, which he joined in 1998. He is 36, single and has lived in Wrington, Somerset, for the past ten years. A year ago ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

The SITraN scientific research programmes are dedicated to developing effective disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases of the human motor system and evidence-based clinical care ...