In neurodegenerative diseases, microglia can help or harm the brain. In the October 3 Journal of Clinical Investigation, scientists led by Ilia Baskakov at the University of Maryland School of ...

A clearance mechanism involving microglia has been known to relieve neurons of toxic protein aggregates such as those associated with Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately, this ...

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: ...

Friend or foe? The debate about disease-associated microglia persists eight years after their discovery. If only there was a way to interrogate DAMs in living people and see how they correlate with ...

The kick-off signal for puberty begins in the brain. Specifically, in the hypothalamus, where specific neurons release a ...

Genetic neurodegenerative disorders like Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease currently have no effective treatments. A possible strategy is replacing affected cells with healthy ones in order to slow the ...

Researchers identify the hippocampus and microglia as the "tipping point" that determines if chronic pain leads to depression ...