Articles about 'nerve'

Researchers have developed tiny, flexible devices that can wrap around individual nerve fibres without damaging them.

The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to treat multiple sclerosis.

Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in today's edition of Science, could be used in the future to prevent the plagues which devastate crops (notably in developing countries), affecting the livelihood of one in ten people across the globe.

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.

A University of Cambridge graduate is one of three winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.