University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have revealed how mistakes in the final step of cell division can have dire consequences for developing brain cells.

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown population of immune cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients that is found almost exclusively in the vicinity of a specific type of pathological protein deposit.

The research was led by Dr. Mathilde Touvier, a research director at INSERM (the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), and Anaïs Hasenböhler, Ph.D. student, both from the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Université Paris Cité, France.

Asthma-related pathway helps tumors evade immune attack in triple-negative breast cancer, other tough cancers

Researchers from Macao Polytechnic University, China, set out to look at how both exercise levels and cardiorespiratory fitness, as measured by VO2 max, affected the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) have reached a significant advance in the fight against type 1 diabetes.

A new blood test could help doctors identify whether a treatment for advanced prostate cancer is failing weeks earlier than current tests, according to a U.K.-wide study led by UCL researchers.

“These results provide encouraging evidence that targeting neuromuscular dysfunction can translate into meaningful clinical outcomes, aligning with our evolving understanding of the disease biology,” said first author Patrick John Strollo, MD, a sleep medicine physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.