Robust iPhone 17 demand helped Apple grow its share of the global smartphone market even as most of its rivals struggled.
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Xbox Game Pass, Assinatura Xbox: descubra se o serviço vale a pena em 2026 e entenda os benefícios que vão além dos jogos tradicionais.
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New blood vessels flood the developing brain, then must be sculpted into a functional network. In the cortex, this pruning depends on selective elimination of redundant connections, but the cellular command center behind vascular refinement has remained only partly understood. A new study now points to microglia—the brain’s immune sentinels—as active architects of cerebrovascular pruning during postnatal development.
Using live visualization in the frontal cortex of postnatal day 11 mice, researchers tracked how microglia behave around forming blood vessels. They observed that microglia do not merely associate with vasculature; instead, they progressively migrate toward vessels as development proceeds. As vessel remodeling advances, microglia become enriched at sites where pruning occurs, suggesting a causal role rather than passive surveillance.
To test function, the team manipulated microglia–vessel interactions and assessed vascular outcomes. Intervening in microglial activity altered the extent of vessel elimination, consistent with the idea that microglia mediate pruning to refine the emerging vascular map. The results connect microglial behavior directly to the efficiency and organization of the developing cortical circulation.
Central to the mechanism is an immune signaling pathway previously linked to neuronal synaptic refinement: PD-L1 and its receptor PD-1. The study identifies PD-L1–PD-1 signaling as a regulator of microglia-driven vascular pruning. When this axis was disrupted, pruning was impaired, indicating that immune checkpoint-like communication can shape vascular architecture in the developing brain.
The authors further implicate a specific molecular source from microglia. They report that microglial CD5L secretion promotes the PD-1–dependent pruning program. In other words, microglia release CD5L, engage PD-1 signaling through PD-L1 interactions, and thereby influence which vessels persist and which are eliminated.
Collectively, the work reframes cerebrovascular pruning as a neuroimmune-guided developmental process. By showing that microglia actively target redundant vasculature and by defining a PD-L1–PD-1/CD5L pathway, the study provides mechanistic evidence for how immune cells can tune vascular networks to match developing brain circuitry.
Beyond development, the findings raise broader questions about whether similar immune checkpoint signaling contributes to abnormal vascular remodeling in disease, where pruning can be either excessive or insufficient. For now, the study delivers a clear developmental role: microglia help determine what the brain keeps growing and what it discards.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02378-x
Article Title: Microglia prune developing cortical blood vessels through PD-1 signaling.
Article References: Zhang, M., Wang, Y., Yang, R. et al. Microglia prune developing cortical blood vessels through PD-1 signaling. Nat Neurosci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02378-x
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Xbox Game Pass atualiza seu catálogo com novos jogos imperdíveis, ampliando a experiência para assinantes em Xbox Series X, PC e na nuvem.
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Assistir vídeos do YouTube no Linux ficou mais fácil e eficiente com ferramentas que evitam anúncios e garantem fluidez na reprodução.
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OSINT VM 2026.5 muda para Debian 13, reduz o tamanho da imagem e foca em ferramentas OSINT mais enxutas para VMs.
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Zenimax Online sofre cortes significativos na liderança, levantando dúvidas sobre o futuro de Elder Scrolls Online.
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Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex fed on the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur species called Edmontosaurus annectens.
The post Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
ROCKVILLE, Maryland—Hundreds of Bethesda Game Studios and Zenimax Online Studios employees and their supporters braved nearly 100°F temperatures to protest sweeping layoffs across Xbox during a lunchtime rally in front of parent company Zenimax's headquarters today. The rally was one of five organized today by Zenimax Workers United and its parent union, the Communication Workers of America, at offices across Texas, California, and Montreal.
Attendees held up signs with messages like "Layoffs... layoffs never change" and "Our players deserve better" as union organizers and employees rallied the crowd with speeches and songs. The overwhelming message was one of solidarity and a willingness to push back against job cuts they say have decimated their development and quality assurance teams.
"It's about us building our movement and making sure that we get seen and we're visible," Bethesda technical producer and union volunteer organizer Nathan Hahn told Ars. "Because we want to make sure that we're not okay with these layoffs and that Xbox knows."
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke green cards and deport non-US citizens who work on misinformation, disinformation, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety.
In an opinion published Tuesday, US District Judge James Boasberg granted a preliminary injunction blocking the State Department from enforcing the policy until the CITR’s lawsuit is resolved.
On its face, the policy does not require visa denials or deportations. Instead, it authorizes immigration investigations into individuals suspected of helping foreign adversaries attempt to manipulate public opinion by suppressing US speech.
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Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, "This is a Unix system, I know this!" while using a computer with an unusual 3D file manager interface.
Despite the memes, the film's production team was meticulous in accurately sourcing the right PCs (and adjacent details) for the sets—not too much of a surprise, given writer Michael Crichton's background with computing and his obsessive attention to detail in the book the film is based on.
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Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, "This is a Unix system, I know this!" while using a computer with an unusual 3D file manager interface.
Despite the memes, the film's production team was meticulous in accurately sourcing the right PCs (and adjacent details) for the sets—not too much of a surprise, given writer Michael Crichton's background with computing and his obsessive attention to detail in the book the film is based on.
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New research from Columbia University found that adults who cut their sleep by about 80 minutes for six weeks packed on a pound (0.45 kg) and moved less during the day.
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All the young people the Guardian spoke to disagreed with aspects of the government’s proposed block
Sixteen- and 17-year-olds in Britain are to be encouraged to observe a midnight to 6am social media curfew but will be able to opt out by changing their account settings.
From next spring, they will be urged to refrain from using certain apps, with the block being switched on by default. But the curfew will not be mandatory and can be overridden.
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