Researchers have discovered a rare type of brain immune cell that helps defend against Alzheimer’s. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists have found a special group of microglia (brain immune cells) that ...

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 ...

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental health conditions in America, affecting about one in five people nationwide. But much remains unknown about the roots of anxiety in the brain. Now, ...

New research from scientists at Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and their collaborators helps elucidate the neuroprotective role of microglia, the ...

Using Alzheimer’s mouse models, human cells, and human brain tissue, the researchers demonstrated that lowering PU.1 promotes the expression of lymphoid immunoregulatory receptor proteins on microglia ...

In Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, microglia-the brain's immune defenders-can act as both protectors and aggressors, shaping how the disease progresses. Researchers from the Icahn ...