UCSF is moving forward with plans to construct a neurosciences building at Mission Bay where the world’s top clinical and basic-science researchers will collaborate to prevent, treat and cure pervasiv

UCSF is set to construct a major neuroscience building on its Mission Bay campus.

TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto-led team has uncovered the evolutionary ancestry of the prion gene, which may reveal new understandings of how the prion protein causes diseases such as bovi

About 5 million Americans suffer from dementia -- about half of those from suspected Alzheimer's disease -- according to official estimates.

We all liked Mike. In fact, we all loved the pugnacious, energetic and restlessly entrepreneurial Silicon Valley exec.

Mike Homer, a hard-driving Silicon Valley executive whose fight with a rare brain-wasting disease inspired a multimillion-dollar campaign to find a cure, died Sunday at his home in Atherton.