Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine may have found a new way to tackle chronic nerve pain: by fixing the energy ...

Researchers have reported that supplying healthy mitochondria to damaged nerve cells can reduce pain in models of diabetic ...

For millions living with nerve pain, even a light touch can feel unbearable. Scientists have long suspected that damaged ...

Transferring mitochondria, or the glial cells that produce them, to mice with nerve damage mitigated pain, suggesting a ...

Microscopic cross-section through a peripheral nerve bundle (dark blue), which contains hundreds of nerve fibers coated with Schwann cells. Numerous large fat cells (light blue) can be seen in the ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

Huntington’s disease causes neurons in parts of the brain to gradually break down and die. The disease attacks areas of the brain that help to control voluntary movement, as well as other areas. Now ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

The below is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the Duke University School of Medicine website.Scientists at ...