Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...

Researchers identify tanycytes as a critical mechanism for clearing toxic tau protein from the brain, offering a new target for Alzheimer's treatment.

Researchers at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist have shown that engineered macrophages can infiltrate brain tumor sites, recognize cancer cells, and destroy them in preclinical mouse models, ...

Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new role for little-known brain cells called tanycytes that may influence the development of Alzheimer’s disease. These specialized cells appear to help remove ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen uncover how overactive brain cells may trigger schizophrenia symptoms years after birth ...

A recent study shows that combining magnetic brain scans with computer models can safely measure how dementia medications affect living human brains. This approach could replace invasive tests and ...

How can a brain as sophisticated as ours arise from a single cell? This question, long at the heart of neuroscience research, ...