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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 disease.