Discovery that astrocyte networks shrink and reroute after a loss of sensory signals suggests they may be shaped by experience.

Researchers mapped brain-wide astrocyte networks that link distant regions, proving these "support cells" have their own long ...

Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the complex interactions between brain cells. Researchers at Kiel University (CAU) ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Mitsuharu ENDO and Professor Yasuhiro MINAMI (both from the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University) has ...

Scientists finally have a way to watch the brain’s most elusive support cells behave exactly as they do inside our heads. A team from Johns Hopkins University and the National Research Council of ...

A fall on the head, a blow to the skull, or a road traffic accident—the causes of traumatic brain injury are diverse, but the severe forms have a common denominator: immune reactions and inflammatory ...

Scientists have engineered a nanowire platform that mimics brain tissue to study astrocytes, the star-shaped cells critical for brain health, for the first time in their natural state. (Nanowerk News) ...

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