Between and around the billions of neurons in the human brain is an equally vital scaffold, the extracellular matrix (ECM). An interlinked net of proteins and sugars that surrounds brain cells, the ...

Gene therapy that can cross the blood–brain barrier represents a non-invasive way to map gene expression in the brains of ...

Gail Cornwall, Ph.D., from the TTUHSC School of Medicine recently received an NIH R21 grant to study the underlying mechanisms that facilitate plasticity in the brain extracellular matrix. The brain ...

Researchers demonstrated that released markers of activity (RMAs), engineered proteins that cross the blood-brain barrier and ...

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) are typically diagnosed after irreversible pathology has developed. Aging, the strongest risk factor, drives molecular changes that ...