Brain macrophages serve diversified niches in the brain to maintain the organ’s homeostasis, and can play pathogenic roles in age-related brain disease. Hoping to one day replace dysfunctional ...

The liver is a vital organ that plays a role in many essential functions, including digestion, detoxification, and metabolism. When the liver is damaged, it has the remarkable ability to regenerate ...

In a new study using blood samples from men and women with HIV on long-term suppressive therapy, a team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists reports new evidence that HIV genomes ...

To develop treatments that may one day entirely rid the body of HIV infection, scientists have long sought to identify all of the places that the virus can hide its genetic code. Now, in a study using ...

Replacing rogue microglia with healthy ones can ameliorate, in a mouse model, a childhood neurodegenerative disease called Globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD), aka Krabbe disease. The approach even ...