{"id":220983,"date":"2025-08-26T03:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/can-immune-cells-stave-off-devastating-neurodegenerative-diseases-scientists-aim-to-find-out"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:31:59","slug":"can-immune-cells-stave-off-devastating-neurodegenerative-diseases-scientists-aim-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/can-immune-cells-stave-off-devastating-neurodegenerative-diseases-scientists-aim-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"Can immune cells stave off devastating neurodegenerative diseases? Scientists aim to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-immune-cells-stave-off-devastating-neurodegenerative-diseases-scientists-aim-to-find-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An evolving form of therapy to treat devastating neurodegenerative disorders by injecting fresh immune cells\u2014microglia\u2014directly into the brain, promises a new lease on health by slowing the progression of mind-robbing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The research, underway in China, is in the pre-clinical phase of investigation and is aimed at protecting vital neurons, while at the same time, combating the early hallmarks of neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/microglia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microglia<\/a> transplants have been performed in animal models, but they have ameliorated symptoms of neurological disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evolving form of therapy to treat devastating neurodegenerative disorders by injecting fresh immune cells\u2014microglia\u2014directly into the brain, promises a new lease on health by slowing the progression of mind-robbing conditions. The research, underway in China, is in the pre-clinical phase of investigation and is aimed at protecting vital neurons, while at the same time, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}