New research highlights how astrocytes, long considered mere support cells, actively shape brain network dynamics.

New research shows that retinal neurons can rewire to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease causing blindness.

For more than six decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with a fundamental question about the human brain: Do adults ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

A new study led by scientists from BGI Genomics' Institute of Intelligent Medical Research (IIMR) has identified early ...

Brain tumors aren't always cancerous; benign tumors grow slowly and don't spread, while malignant ones are aggressive. Tumors are classified as primar ...

A childhood glioma develops when changes in glial cells cause the cells to grow and divide more quickly than usual. Experts don’t know exactly what causes these cell changes.

For example, glial cells are known to clear away abnormal build-up of protein, accompanied by an inflammatory response; neuroinflammation is a core pathology of AD.

During development, the controlled and programmed death of specific cells is as important as the survival of others; for example, the webbing on embryonic hands degenerates to fashion fingers from a ...

For example, I am not aware of the individual messages the cells in my brain are sending as I write this, and clean-up by the glial cells typically happens when we’re sleeping.