Jul 2026
Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human ageing.
An approach that uses the collection of accumulated somatic mutations that uniquely labels each clone of cells to track the infiltration of bone-marrow-derived cells into the human brain finds evidence of an influx of bone-marrow-derived cells into the brain in all examined individuals.
Julia A. Belk, Yao-Wen Zhang, Emily E. Reilly et al.
· Nature · 2 citations