An international research team led by Professor Kiavash Movahedi from the Brussels Center for Immunology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has published unexpected results in the journal Immunity.

In Alzheimer’s disease, microglia act as a double-edged sword. They can either protect the brain or worsen the damage, depending on their activation state. Inflammatory activation harms healthy ...

Good managers set the tone for the whole team, encouraging positive behavior from everyone around them. In the November 5 Nature, scientists introduce a subtype of microglia that appears to do just ...

Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary have unveiled the latest product of their nearly four-year artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration, a whole-genome map of specialized ...

Tiny immune cells called microglia protect the central nervous system (CNS) in a multitude of ways: They provide innate immunity, shape neurodevelopment, maintain homeostasis and modulate neurological ...

Fluorescent microscope image of transplanted microglia (branching yellow shapes) in a mouse brain. Red marks gene-edited transplanted microglia, green marks immune cells called macrophages, and blue ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that the nervous system's own immune cells help protect the spinal cord from age-related damage.

The timeline of microglia replacement evolution and its technical preparation in the pre-replacement era is summarized in this figure. Tiny charming immune cells called microglia protect the central ...

During development, there are known sex-related differences in how microglia function. But into adulthood, there was thought to be less variation in how they behave. Microglia maintain neuronal ...