I sometimes make fun of microglia, because they were (unfairly) given a name that means “tiny glue.” They deserve better: these are immune cells that live in the brain and attend to numerous important matters (none of which involve glue). A new paper in Cell Reports shows that microglia in mice are strikingly different between … Continue reading The microglial response to inhibition of Colony-stimulating-factor-1 receptor by PLX3397 differs by sex in adult mice