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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO—In healthy brains, immune cells called microglia patrol for damage, clearing away debris and harmful proteins. But in the presence of the APOE4 protein—the most important genetic risk ...

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 ...

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

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