Glial cells help providing nutrition and support to brain cells. Tumors from glial cells are often aggressive. They can start in the brain or the spinal cord, then rapidly form finger-like ...

However, the cancer rarely spreads outside your brain to other parts of your body. Glioma tumours like GBM begin in the glial cells—important to nerve cell function. Glioblastoma specifically ...

Recent research has focused on identifying germline polymorphisms associated with risk of glioma, and using molecular markers to classify glial tumors into more-homogenous groups. Because gene ...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the cancer biologist is combining research into the tumor microenvironment with the principles of neuroscience to tease apart how cancers grow—and how to stop them.

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

In both cases, we made fundamental observations about the nature of glial cells and directly applied these paradigms to relevant neurological diseases: brain tumors and white matter injury. Our view ...