by Northwestern University Credit: Neuron (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.013A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer’s patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients’ behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes work. Many of these altered immune genes are the same ones that increase an...
by Sarah C.P. Williams, University of California, San Francisco Myeloid immune cells alongside red blood cells in an electron micrograph of human blood. Credit: National Cancer Institute Using new technologies to study thousands of genes simultaneously within immune cells, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford School of Medicine have created the most...
