Immune cells of the brain, microglia, play an important role in maintaining proper functionality of their environment over the whole lifespan. Ageing itself relates to decrease of functionality in whole organism, however… Read more

Prion diseases are untreatable fatal brain conditions such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows. These are relatively rare diseases but still affect approximately… Read more

We wish to explore and validate the information that the use of non-invasive brain imaging can provide on the morphology and structure in association with the neuropathology. The development of a μCT scanner capable of… Read more

The aim of this project is to ensure that certain laboratory reagents (antibodies), used in research projects, are performing as well as they should. This quality control utilizes human brain tissue which has been fixed in formalin… Read more