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12 February 2026
Accumulating Details
Underlying the pathology of the rare, fatal genetic disorder Lafora disease is the build-up of an energy-storage form of glucose called glycogen in the brain and other tissues. Here, a lab-grown astrocyte (a type of non-neuron brain cell) system has been developed as an accessible, rapid way to research how the glycogen accumulates and activates inflammation
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- Image from work by Mireia Moreno-Estellés, and colleagues
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Nutrient Signaling Unit, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, February 2026
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