Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now shown that, in addition to neurons, special glial cells in the brain also produce amyloid beta. This finding ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste ...

Glial cells provide structural and other kinds of support to neurons and help to ensure that neurons can function properly. There are multiple types of glial cells with distinct purposes.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, a ...

The increasing implication of glial cells in neurodegenerative diseases makes them an appealing addition to iPSC-based model systems for investigating disease mechanisms. Over the last decade, Dr.