Novel technology allows for the enhanced delivery of anticancer drugs to the specific locations of brain tumours while sparing normal brain regions. [ + ]

In order to take high-resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you need to know exactly where to point the microscope. [ + ]

The artificial blood–brain barrier model can be used to determine how well antibody-based therapies can enter the brain. [ + ]

The concept of using peptides to block the effects of the damaging repeat expanded RNA and toxic repeat proteins could transform how some neurodegenerative conditions are treated. [ + ]

The gene ALPK3, which controls the heart's capacity to beat normally, has been shown to increase cardiomyopathy risk when mutated. [ + ]

Scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy, using the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. [ + ]

Researchers have demonstrated a machine learning method that utilises 2D chemical descriptors to accurately predict highly selective asymmetric catalysts. [ + ]

People who regularly use laxatives may have more than a 50% increased risk of developing dementia than people who do not use laxatives, according to a new study. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a simple dipstick test to screen for a highly infectious, potentially deadly virus transmitted by bats to humans and pigs in Asia. [ + ]

Poor sleep could lead to between two and seven years' worth of heightened heart disease risk and even premature death, researchers have found. [ + ]

MS Australia has awarded over $3 million in grants to 22 new projects focused on multiple sclerosis (MS) research. [ + ]

The hydrogel keeps stem cells alive for long enough to allow them to evolve into the cells required to create new tissue in the damaged part of the body. [ + ]

Patients who experienced a head injury were nearly four times more likely to develop a brain cancer later in life than those who had no head injury. [ + ]

Measuring a key blood molecule may help doctors diagnose whether or how much impaired blood flow to a patient's brain is contributing to dementia or cognitive problems. [ + ]

The tool can be used to investigate bacterial interactions with the host in real time during an infection, which cannot be easily achieved by other methods. [ + ]