The restoration of healthy glial support-even after symptoms begin-could reset neuronal gene expression, stabilize synaptic function, and meaningfully delay disease progression.

Huntington’s disease has long defied attempts to rescue suffering neurons. A new study in Cell Reports shows that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into the brains of adult animal ...

Glial cells play an important role in supporting the body's central and peripheral nervous systems. Several types, each with different functions, of glial cells exist. Learn more here.

Anatomy explorers have charted a new path myeloid cells use to access the brain. On 3 June in Neuron, scientists led by Lindsay Hohsfield and Kim Green, both at the University of California, Irvine, ...

Transplanting healthy glia into symptomatic mice Researchers used R6/2 mice, a well-established model of Huntington's disease that develops motor and cognitive symptoms similar to those seen in ...

News & Views Published: August 2000 From parathyroid to thymus, via glial cells Rudi Balling & Reinhold G. Erben Nature Medicine 6, 860–861 (2000) Cite this article ...

Glial biology articles from across Nature Portfolio The study of the molecular and cellular biology of glial cells, for example, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells and microglia.

A glioma is a type of brain tumor that forms from glial cells. These cells support and protect neurons in the brain. There are many types and subdivisions of gliomas. Gliomas are the most common ...