We used to think that the only role of the immune system was to protect the body from pathogens, cancer and damage. It is now clear that the immune system also functions to control tissue development, ...

Canadian scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a noninvasive brain-monitoring technique could help medical ...

Central nervous system (CNS) toxicity accounts for 25% of safety failures across drug discovery and development, yet it is rarely detected during standard GLP toxicology studies 1. Seizure risk ...

One of the challenges when studying brain development and disease is the limited access to live human brain tissue. Murine models have been extensively used to investigate brain development and ...

Inflammatory pathways involving microglia, astrocytes, and cytokine signaling are widely implicated in disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, and ...