Research in Dr. Schafer's Brain and Systemic Aging Lab at Mayo Clinic focuses on how aging changes cell identities, tissue composition, and brain health and function.

New study reveals how a DNA regulatory switch controls stem cell function, enabling the production of blood cells and ...

Without the receptor, ADGRG1, the microglia barely nibbled on the toxic protein. Using a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers observed how the loss of ADGRG1 led to the rapid buildup of ...

Method combines genomics technologies with computational modeling to predict changes in multicellular behavior, such as cell communication.

Funded primarily by the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and leveraging prior ...

Advance could usher in new era of research for schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, and other neurological diseases ...

A breakthrough AI system is revolutionizing cancer immunotherapy by enabling scientists to design protein-based keys that ...

Subtle differences in an mRNA sequence enables a ribosome to produce more or less of a certain protein. A new AI model called ...

Researchers have discovered that when photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, microglia, or the brain’s immune cells, ...

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

Bacteria in the gut could help diagnose long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome, researchers have found. The debilitating ...

Ben Trotman, diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma in 2022, experienced a complete remission after receiving ipilimumab before standard treatment as pa ...