UC Davis researcher develops groundbreaking animal models to understand how viruses like COVID-19 trigger neurological damage and accelerate Alzheimer's disease DAVIS, California, USA, 1 July 2025 – ...
The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...
Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...
The brain is shielded from many substances by the blood-brain barrier, but this shield is not impenetrable. There are immune cells in the brain called microglia that can respond to potential invaders ...
For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a slow catastrophe that begins inside the brain and stays ...
Figure 1. Conceptual illustration of label-free, multiphoton photoacoustic microscope (LF-MP-PAM). Near-infrared femtosecond laser enable us to observe endogenous NAD(P)H of neurons in brain slice and ...