Increasing multidisciplinarity has also boosted information flow, as researchers who had previously focused exclusively on neurons have begun to consider glial cells in their experimental designs.

Gcm2 stands for “glial cells missing-2” because disruption of its homologue, Gcm, in Drosophila causes presumptive glial cells to be converted into neurons 2,3.

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 ...

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.

Researchers have developed a stem cell treatment that they say allowed a paralyzed man to stand again following a spinal cord ...

the possibility that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 could infect neurons or glial cells in our brain is less well documented, with reports that show contradictory results. Up to one third of COVID-19 ...

A paralyzed man received an injection of reprogrammed stem cells that helped him stand and move on his own again.

Model allowed researchers to better understand the complex molecular mechanisms that determine the robustness, flexibility, ...

Pharmaceutical companies ramp up efforts to get the brain’s immune cells to help treat Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions, but not everyone agrees the approach will be effective.

Zhang studies astrocytes because they are the most common glial cell in the brain and because they are neurons’ next of kin. “During development, neural stem cells generate neurons first and later go ...