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Pediatric high-grade gliomas are incurable brain cancers.

Late-onset Alzheimer’s (late-AD) is a complex neurodegenerative condition with abnormalities in toxic protein accumulation, vascularization, inflammation, neuronal activity and cerebral atrophy.

Canada recently became the first G7 nation to legalize Cannabis for medicinal and recreational use.

The human experience is marked by constant learning.

Proteins are large molecules that play many essential roles in the body.

In 97 per cent of ALS cases and nearly half of cases of frontotemporal dementia, the TDP-43 protein is misplaced to an area outside the cell nucleus of the motor neuron called the cytoplasm.

TDP-43 is a protein that behaves abnormally in the motor neurons of 97 per cent of people with ALS.

Neuroinflammation has been implicated in a diverse array of degenerative conditions, ranging from Multiple Sclerosis  to  Alzheimer’s  disease.

Optogenetic strategies – the ability to activate normally light-insensitive neurons with light – are being used in clinical trials to restore light sensitivity to the retina of vision impaired patients.