Asian Spectator

Men's Weekly

.

Harnessing the brain's immune cells to stave off Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases

  • Written by Kristine Zengeler, Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience, University of Virginia
Harnessing the brain's immune cells to stave off Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseasesMicroglia (colored green) play several essential roles in maintaining brain health and function. Gerry Shaw/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

Many neurodegenerative diseases, or conditions that result from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely untreatable. Most available treatments target just one of the multiple processes that...

More Articles ...

  1. Congress is set to codify marriage equality – but the Respect for Marriage Act has a few key limitations
  2. Asexual Latter-day Saints face an added dilemma: Finding their place in a tradition focused on marriage
  3. Risers, founders, planners and fillers: 4 career paths to get to the top at nonprofits
  4. Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it's an idea older than Congress itself
  5. How to deal with holiday stress, Danish-style
  6. For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace
  7. Native Hawaiians believe volcanoes are alive and should be treated like people, with distinct rights and responsibilities
  8. Early and mail-in voting: Research shows they don't always bring in new voters
  9. What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It isn’t fear of sea-level rise
  10. Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case

Magazine

Riset: Sapi Indonesia punya jejak DNA banteng liar, tertinggi di sapi madura

● Sapi-sapi Indonesia punya jejak DNA banteng liar.● Sapi madura memiliki proporsi gen banteng yang paling besar.● Kekayaan genetik sapi lokal terancam hilang karena persilangan deng...

Diplomasi di persimpangan: Antara solidaritas Palestina dan kepentingan dagang dengan Israel

Pantulan gambar peserta Aksi Pro-Palestina di Jakarta pada 24 Mei 2025.Rumaisha Project/Shutterstock● Indonesia selalu mendukung kemerdekaan Palestina, tapi secara ekonomi, tak bisa lepas dari I...

Katingan Dayak bronze bells: Traces of migration or local creative expression?

The scent of tabalien wood (Eusideroxylon zwageri) and the laughter of children playing in the yard greeted me as I stepped into a wooden house in Tumbang Panggu, a remote village in Indonesia’s...