Cells with electrophysiological activity obtained at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are opening up new ...

The seventh cranial nerve governs the sensation and movement of all the muscles in the face. Damage to this nerve can cause an inability to move one or both sides of the face, affecting a child’s ...

The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate.

He was pronounced dead the next day. Carter’s mother told investigates that medical staff told her that her son experienced a “stroke in his brain stem.” Before his death, Carter had been ...

“They said that they couldn’t take the whole tumour because it’s at the brain stem and if anything was to happen she would die. “When they’d done the surgery, they said they’d do chemotherapy and for ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR ... investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result: Even a ...