During most eye infections or injuries, neutrophils, immune cells found in the blood, are usually the first line of defense. However, researchers at the Flaum Eye Institute and Del Monte Institute for ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences.

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 ...

Plaques all but vanish in response to some Aβ immunotherapies. Scientists suspect microglia orchestrate the mop-up, but don’t know how, exactly. Now, David Gate of Northwestern University in Chicago ...