Long thought of as passive bystanders, glial cells are coming under increasing scrutiny as mediators of inflammatory disease in the nervous system. Now, some drug makers are hoping they can be ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Satellite Cells in the Nervous System ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 6 (December 1961), p. 62 doi:10.1038 ...

Cancer immunotherapy strategy equips T cells with molecular GPS that lets them home in on brain tumors and sites of ...

Astrocytes are star-shaped glial cells in the central nervous system that support neuronal function, maintain the blood-brain ...

Figure 1: Expression of cellular prion protein and its mRNA in neurons and glial cells of the ENS ... spread of infectivity before central nervous system invasion are essential.

A unique combination of explainable AI and repurposing animal camouflage detection algorithms can identify human brain cancer ...

A common heart drug may slow the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), according to a new study by University of Iowa Health Care researchers. A hot flush is a phenomenon as disruptive as it ...

University of Virginia researchers’ laboratory findings could be life-changing for those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. Funding from UVA’s Brain Institute will help them take their ...

Michael Barresi’s research interests are focused on how glial cells help wire the nervous system in the embryonic zebrafish brain. His lab discovered that astroglial cells provide a substrate for ...

Both space exploration and stem cells have been at the center of major research projects, and combining the two has led to a ...

Robert Fledrich, neuroscientist and professor at the Institute of Anatomy at Leipzig University’s Faculty of Medicine, has ...

The complexity of the central nervous system (CNS) and its pathologies necessitates an intricate understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms at play. Single-cell biology has emerged as a ...