Brain Tumor; Nervous System; Alzheimer

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers…

At the beginning of neurodegenerative disease, the immune cells of the brain — the “microglia” — take up glucose, a sugar molecule, to a much greater extent than hitherto assumed.…