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March 21, 2025

Boosting brain’s waste removal system improves memory in old mice

Research opens door to developing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.

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March 7, 2025

$4.5 million supports pathbreaking neuroimmunology research

Grant funds WashU Medicine’s pursuit of new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

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February 6, 2025

WashU Medicine and Weizmann Institute of Science establish joint research program

New collaboration supports research to understand the role of microbes and the immune and nervous systems in human health and disease.

Medical Campus & Community

October 30, 2024

Healthy brains suppress inappropriate immune responses

Harnessing this process may offer therapies for neuroinflammatory diseases such as MS, mouse study suggests.

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September 4, 2024

Novel immunotherapy improves recovery from spinal cord injury

Mouse study shows engineered immune cell therapy protects damaged neurons.

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February 28, 2024

Neurons help flush waste out of brain during sleep

Findings could lead to new approaches for Alzheimer’s, other neurological conditions.

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February 7, 2024

How does waste leave the brain?

Discovered route serves as passageway to clear fluid waste from brain.

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November 9, 2022

Rejuvenated immune cells can improve clearance of toxic waste from brain

Findings in mice suggest new therapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s, other age-related diseases.

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October 17, 2022

Adeoye, Guilak, Gutmann, Kipnis elected to National Academy of Medicine

Election is one of the highest honors for contributions to health, medicine.

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June 3, 2021

Studies reveal skull as unexpected source of brain immunity

Immune cells from skull bone marrow guard the brain, spinal cord.

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May 4, 2021

Brain’s lymphatic system tied to Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice

Source: The Scientist