SARATOGA, CALIFORNIA - January 20, 2004 - The Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF), a Saratoga, Calif.-based non-profit research foundation, today announced the formation of a consortium of five of the ...

In adults, damage to myelin is a hallmark of MS. In this condition, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the ...

The scenario: A widespread contamination triggered a neurological disease that could infect as many as 100 million people in the U.S. What do we do? The Breakthroughs to Cures game generates over ...

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 ...

Myelin is a lipid sheath that insulates nerve fibers carrying signals throughout the brain and body. When this sheath becomes damaged, the passage of these crucial signals is disrupted, leading to ...

In the nearly 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis, the fatty substance that insulates the nerves of the central nervous system—called myelin—is damaged. This slows the transmission of ...

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the Institute ...

When Scott Johnson read an article about a potential breakthrough that restored nerve function in mice with multiple sclerosis, he assumed that it would soon be turned into a treatment. That was in ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells—one of the few brain cell types that continue to be produced in the adult ...