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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early research links the human cytomegalovirus, a type of herpes virus found in the gut, to the development of Alzheimer’s ...