Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microglial receptor ADGRG1 helps immune cells eat amyloid plaques and may offer new hope for Alzheimer's treatment. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered that an immunosuppressive drug affects microglia, the resident immune ...

Parkinson’s disease has long been defined by the slow, relentless loss of dopamine-producing neurons, with treatments focused ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Home to billions of cells that form trillions of connections, the human brain isn’t just the body’s most important organ, it’s also the hardest to study. But an international team of scientists using ...

Please can you introduce yourself and tell us about your research background and interests, as well as why you decided to conduct your latest study? At the time of publication, I was a post-doc in the ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New mouse data reveal that ageing neurons struggle to clear synaptic proteins, shifting the burden to microglia and exposing a critical vulnerability in brain protein maintenance ...

A new study shows how a type of cells called microglia contribute to the slowdown of neuron activity seen in Alzheimer's disease. The study found that microglia that express the APOE4 gene, one of the ...

From anemia to leukemia, unhealthy cells can make for unhealthy people, but replacing these cells can help patients. What if the same were true for some of the world’s most devastating neurological ...