Excess fat in brain immune cells weakens defenses against Alzheimer’s. Blocking fat storage restored their ability to fight disease. For many years, scientists believed that fat in the brain had ...

A research team led by Director C. Justin LEE of the Center for Cognition and Sociality at the Institute for Basic Science ...

Excess fat deposits in the brain's immune cells – the microglia – could impair their ability to combat disease. This may open ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...

Spinal cord injuries caused by external trauma, such as traffic accidents or falls, often lead to the permanent loss of motor ...

PawBiotix leverages this knowledge by embedding probiotics into a carefully designed formula that maximizes survivability and ...

It was long thought that fat in the brain played no role in neurodegenerative diseases, but Purdue University researchers are ...

Spinal cord injuries caused by external trauma, such as traffic accidents or falls, often lead to the permanent loss of motor ...

Aging research is increasingly focused on proteins that regulate DNA repair, metabolism, cell survival and tissue renewal.

Research by microbiologists Martijn Wissink and Cornelia Welte of Radboud University, among others, is helping us understand ...

The molecule Wnt, which plays a role in cell communication during human development, evolved from a superfamily with a shared lipid-modifying mechanism originally involved in bacterial defence and ...

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