Recently, a team of South Korean scientists led by Director C. Justin Lee of the Center for Cognition and Sociality within the Institute for Basic Science made a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Researchers headed by a team at the Institute for Basic Science’s Center for Cognition and Sociality in South Korea reported on a discovery that they claim could revolutionize the diagnosis and ...

A research team has uncovered a new mechanism involving astrocytes for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) and proposed a novel therapeutic target. AD, a representative form of senile dementia, occurs ...

Astrocytes, the predominant glial population in the human central nervous system, play crucial roles in neuroprotection, immunity, and homeostasis. However, when exposed to certain neuroinflammatory ...

Once overlooked, astrocytes are increasingly recognized as star players in Alzheimer’s disease, with recent studies blaming them for feeding into a neurotoxic stew that kills neurons. In the September ...

“A big challenge in the field was that anytime you put astrocytes in culture, they were already changing their state,” said neuroscientist Paul Tesar, who studies glial cell function at Case Western ...

Astrocytes shed their supportive role and unlock hidden neurogenic potential, offering new hope for brain injury recovery through cutting-edge epigenetic reprogramming. Study: DNA methylation controls ...

The potential effects of astrocyte dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases are summarized in Figure 2. AD is characterized clinically by cognitive loss in two or more domains, including memory, ...

When the brain is injured in some way, a wide range of biochemical changes are triggered that can affect crucial brain cells known as astrocytes. They are a type of glial cell, and brain injuries ...

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...