The Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor suffered from a rare form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve ...

A technology aims to be a "wearable" device for neurons, wrapping around individual nerve fibers to better study and treat ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

Although there are several molecular or morphological differences between nerve fibers in the PNS and CNS, the basic myelin sheath arrangement and the electrophysiological characteristics are ...

A bundle of neurones is called a nerve. There are three main types of ... which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and down the body.

Expert in sarcoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ping Chi, gave a presentation as part of the Cancer ...

Model developed in study will pave way for more discovery about important but mysterious process Ben Emery, Ph.D., and ...

Creel died Sept. 30 at his home in New York City at age 48. He had been diagnosed with metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve ...

The nerve cell is covered with a fatty sheath, which insulates the nerve cell and speeds up the nerve impulse. Muscle cells contain filaments of protein that slide over each other to cause muscle ...

In MS, the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin sheath—a protective layer surrounding nerve cells in the nervous ...