Examining post-mortem tissue from the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators identified what appear to be iron-containing microglia -- ...

Microglia, immune cells of the brain, have recently gained recognition for their neuroprotective function; now meet the molecule that makes it happen. Researchers at University of Virginia Health ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered the vital role of microglia, the immune cells in the brain that acts as its dedicated defense team, in early human brain development. By incorporating ...

A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that immune cells called microglia can actively promote the formation of plaques in Alzheimer’s disease, challenging the long-standing view ...

Researchers have unraveled how immune cells called microglia can transform and drive harmful processes like neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease. The study also integrates drug databases with real ...

You might well think that myelin, the fatty insulation that speeds action potentials between neurons, falls solely under the purview of oligodendrocytes. After all, these specialized cells wrap ...

Ever since loss-of-function variants in the gene for PILRA, short for paired immunoglobulin-like type 2 receptor alpha, turned up as protecting against Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have wondered ...

One of the biggest controversies in neuroscience dates back to 1906, when Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal argued their opposing views on brain structure. 1 Golgi hypothesized that brain cells ...