Microglia can partially break down amyloid plaques by "spitting" a digestive enzyme at them, a new study has found.

Common virus could be behind Alzheimer’s in some people, scientists say - Herpes virus may linger in gut and travel to brain ...

A study led by Turkish researcher Pinar Ayata unveiled a critical mechanism involving microglia—specialized immune cells in the brain—that could open new avenues for treating Alzheimer's disease, ...

Researchers have discovered a link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of ...

Tiziana Life Sciences, Ltd. (Nasdaq: TLSA) (“Tiziana” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company developing breakthrough immunomodulation therapies with its lead development candidate, intranasal ...

Microglia have been revealed to first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit ...

Researchers with the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have unveiled a critical mechanism that links cellular stress in the brain to the progression of Alzheimer ...

Discover how stressed-out immune cells in the brain may be the key culprit behind the development of Alzheimer's disease.

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...

CUNY scientists made a key Alzheimer's disease breakthrough, identifying a vital mechanism in the brain’s immune cells that ...

Microglia are known to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, but exactly what they do has remained a mystery. Scientists in the Bart De Strooper Lab at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain ...

This study describes a valuable new model for in vivo manipulation of microglia, exploring how mutations in the Adar1 gene within microglia contribute to Aicardi-Goutières Syndome. The methodology is ...