The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don't get enough slow-wave sleep. Over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year, a 2023 study found. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human ...

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain. Promisingly, an FDA-approved cancer drug that targets another protein called Lag3 – which interacts with Aplp1 – ...

Most of our cells have a genetic code that, when deciphered, tells our body how to make the proteins we need for survival. With the passing of time and experience of hardship, small modifications are added to act like 'genetic switches', affecting the way our cells interpret the instructions ...