For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI scans may reveal a suspicious-looking lesion, but the only sure way to ...

This news may put some minds at ease. Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously ...

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a new genetic test that can diagnose brain tumours in as little as 2 hours. The test, called ROBIN, uses PromethION nanopore sequencing to ...

University researchers are examining how surgery and aging can specifically affect older brains and how aging brains could recover.