The connected health revolution
Are we slipping almost silently towards a society that no longer values self-esteem, but self-measurement? On closer inspection, connected health ...
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Alzheimer’s: beta-amyloid plaques protect the brain instead of destroying it
Until now considered the main cause of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, beta-amyloid plaques could be formed as a defense by ...
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Alzheimer’s: immune cells are linked to the development of the disease
Microglia, a set of immune cells, has a double impact on Alzheimer's disease: it protects the central nervous system while ...
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Alzheimer’s: the process of creating new neurons involved in the disease
New work shows that cells ensuring the immune defense of the central nervous system play, like amyloid plaques, a role ...
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First effective targeted therapy against brain metastases
New, targeted therapy may make the supporting tissue of the brain, the "microglia", hostile to implantation of metastases. This is ...
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