During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

Your body is an amazing biological machine and it s electric. Every heartbeat, thought, and movement depends on tiny electrical impulses running through your body. You might not feel them, but these ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Nerivio REN wearable, a noninvasive and drug-free device, is hoping to change the way to treat and prevent migraine headaches.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmia [1]. Electrical properties of the atrial myocardium may be related to the appearance of this type of arrhythmia. However ectopic ...

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super)computing, today announced Passage™ L200, the world’s first 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product. Designed to integr ...

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This uses weaker electrical impulses to stimulate nerve fibres and block the transmission of pain signals. A highlighted that Tens may have some benefit in improving walking distance.

Researchers have discovered that stomach cancers make electrical connections with nearby sensory nerves and use these malignant circuits to stimulate the cancer's growth and spread.

This electrical effect could help explain another problem in our current, neuron-based understanding of consciousness—normal spike pathways are too slow to explain cognitive function.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain. The study published ...

Researcher have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain that fires electrical impulses. The cells are hybrids, part neuron and part glia, and are present in both glioma, a type of brain tumor ...