Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness as well as effective treatments.

Motor neurons are cells in your brain and spinal cord that help you walk, talk, and eat. Learn how damage to these cells could affect your movement and what your doctor can do to treat it.

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

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Motor neurons, which degenerate and die in ALS, are large cells with one long extension called an axon-up to a meter long-that conducts signals from the spinal cord to the muscle fiber.

Neurons are cells that act as the brain's fundamental building blocks, transmitting information through electrical signals. When a neuron receives a stimulus, changes in membrane voltage (the ...

A new study has generated induced pluripotent stem cells from 341 ALS patients and 92 controls, differentiated these into motor neurons, and profiled the differentiated cells using ...

Symptoms of motor neuron degeneration could start at as early as 3 months of age and lead to muscle atrophy, paralysis and death, often before the child's second birthday.

Fukuoka, Japan – Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative technique to non-invasively measure two key signals, membrane voltage and intracellular calcium levels, at the ...

An exception is a motor-neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is widely known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after a famous baseball player of the 1920s, who died of it.