Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a technology that rapidly converts stem cells to brain cells with protein structures characteristic of Parkinson’s disease (PD), helping ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cell transformation begins with slow degeneration and progresses rapidly. The data confirmed results from ...

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 ...

Two of our faculty, Lalita Shevde-Samant, Ph.D., and Rajeev Samant, Ph.D., Ph.D., both professors in the Division of Molecular & Cellular Pathology and senior scientists, cancer cell biology with the ...

The involvement of glial cells in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been mostly viewed as a secondary adaptive response to ...