Possible approach for the treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases discovered

01-Nov-2024 - In collaboration with King's College London, a team of researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center has succeeded in converting non-neuronal cells directly in the brain into nerve cells with specific functional properties. The insights into cellular reprogramming in the brain gained in the ...

Brain Confetti: Why our Sense of Smell Declines in Old Age

21-Dec-2018 - As mammals age, their sense of smell deteriorates. In a study published in the journal ‘Cell Reports’, an interdisciplinary research team at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Medical Centre Mainz investigated why this is the case. For their study, the researchers tracked the ...

Immune Cells Also Attack Neurons Directly

New Findings on Multiple Sclerosis

24-Sep-2010 - Researchers in Germany have gained new insight into how the immune system causes damage associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable neuroinflammatory disorder. Using imaging tools which enable investigation of processes in living organisms, they were able to show a direct interaction ...