As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail.

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years ...

Some researchers have described the period running up to someone developing ME/CFS and long COVID, as a “prodromal” phase. In ...

Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

which causes toxoplasmosis-challenging some common assumptions about how the immune system deals with infections in the brain. Penn Vet professor Christopher A. Hunter, the paper's senior author ...

The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It's capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells, and it can ...

Rejuvenating the brain's lymphatic vessels can enhance memory in aging mice by improving the removal of waste products from ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...