Brains are like puzzles, requiring many nested and codependent pieces to function well. The brain is divided into areas, each containing many millions of neurons connected across thousands of synapses.
Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and the University of Sheffield in England co-led a study that shows promise for the development of gene therapies to repair hearing loss.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other prion diseases progress rapidly and lead to dementia and death. How fatal aggregates of prions are formed in brain cells has