Thursday, 9 February, 2012

At the University of California, San Diego, a recent study explored potential causes of Alzheimer’s Disease through measures of brain activity.  It was discovered that astrocytes, which are non-neuronal cells that provide protection for the brain’s neurons, play a more important role than once believed. In this image, neurons are shown in green and astrocytes [...]

New video captures AIDS moving inside immune cells: HIV enters pods that form on the surface, then jumps across into a healthy immune cell that is now doomed to spread HIV — and die.