“Acute” means that the cancer tends to develop quickly and requires aggressive treatment. “Chronic” leukemias tend to develop slower. AML develops in the blood-producing cells in your bone marrow and ...

It was a shot in the dark — or at best, a dimly lit room: injecting a mouse with a little bit of spinal cord fluid from someone with the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Then ...

In a mildly vampiric finding, spinal fluid from young mice appears to make their elders smarter. A new study published in the journal Nature details how, when injected with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ...

Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer’s disease lurking in patients’ spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed ...

Armando Medrano started experiencing headaches in January 2022. Usually, they happened early in the morning, but often they wouldn't go away. His primary care doctor saw him a couple of times from ...

A team at Stanford University has demonstrated a new approach to reversing memory loss — in mice. An infusion of spinal fluid from young mice reversed the memory loss typically seen in aging animals, ...

Researchers identified a protein in the fluid that could boost the cognition of aging animals — and might lead to future treatments for people. By Benjamin Mueller Five years ago, Tal Iram, a young ...

High levels of a certain enzyme in the fluid around a person’s brain and spinal cord could be a sign that they have Parkinson’s disease – potentially enabling the condition to be diagnosed earlier.

When doctors suspect Alzheimer's, they can order a blood test to learn whether a patient's brain contains the sticky amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of the disease. But the results of that test ...

Researchers at UCSF recently published a study that found those suffering from the post-COVID 'brain fog' condition had abnormalities in their brain fluid. In a small study of 32 adults suffering from ...