Worms, Want to Live Longer? Pretend the Air Is Thin
To fight against diseases of aging, scientists must understand the aging process itself...
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To fight against diseases of aging, scientists must understand the aging process itself...
Brain imaging and cognitive tests may be the gold standards for tracking AD progression, but clinical trials using these procedures are expensive, risky, and time-consuming...
A story that grew rapidly from flicker to flame in AD circles over the past few years has been what role an important brain network might play in the early stages of disease...
A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study hopes to enroll 10,000 people in a 20-year study looking at the behavioral impact of predictive information gleaned from personal genomics data...
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Pyroglutamate, or pyroGlu (pGlu) to the initiated, is an aromatic ring form of glutamate that has been discovered in some fragments of amyloid-β...
Whether intensely focused or thinking of nothing in particular, people carrying the ApoE4 allele show differences in brain activity at a very young age...
To sleep, perchance to dream—and perhaps to tone down overworked synapses?...
Without its associated metal ions, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) adopts a loose, fluid structure that exposes normally buried cysteines...
Among yeast biologists, prions are not considered to be the misshapen monsters early studies made them out to be...
The Alzheimer's Study Group (ASG) this week released its final report...
Once the neurotransmitter glutamate has flooded the synapse and sent its signal downstream, the cleanup crew must clear out the glutamate, or the neurons will eventually die...
A surplus of nitric oxide (NO) generally spells bad news for neurons, as does mitochondrial dysfunction...
Without Nurr1, a gene at the root of a rare form of familial Parkinson disease (PD), the brain’s inflammatory response spirals out of control and damages neurons...
Activated microglia are a feature of Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases, but exactly what rouses these immune cells of the brain out of quiescence is unclear...