PD Models II: Nature versus Nurture
Just how good are animal models of neurodegenerative disorders? After all, those based on genetic lesions...
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Just how good are animal models of neurodegenerative disorders? After all, those based on genetic lesions...
Scientists still have a long way to go before they can harness the immense potential of human stem cells...
Having just brought you some news on the nurture half of the developmental equation, we flip the coin and examine...
Memory loss is one of the most obvious and devastating symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD). But despite advances in researchers’ understanding of...
Recent evidence has fingered DNA damage as a factor in neurodegeneration...
One of the surprises at the AD/PD 2005 conference held last week in Sorrento, Italy, lay in just how many groups presented new experimental therapy approaches in various stages of preclinical development.
Exactly what makes p25/Cdk5 so deadly to neurons? A good place to start tracing the path of this rogue kinase would be...
March 14, the day after the AD/PD conference drew to a close in Sorrento, a meeting on Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration kicked off at University College Dublin, Ireland...
In terms of a treatment for Alzheimer disease, Aβ seems to be where it’s at these days. Some of the most promising strategies focus on...
Followers of the Tao eastern philosophy advocate complete simplicity and naturalness; followers of the tau protein...
In February 2004, researchers at Seoul National University in Korea surprised the world when they reported...
Presenilins make up the catalytic core of the γ-secretase protease complex, and are infamous for their role in...
The benefit of caloric restriction (CR) on health and longevity was one of the major themes at the 34th annual meeting of the American Aging Association, held June 3-6 in Oakland, California...
Normal cellular prion protein (PrPc) is easy to spot on the surface of neurons and glia in the CNS by antibody staining. But when the protein converts...
Light switches come in two types, the on/off and the variable, or dimmer switch. Might phosphorylation switches on proteins work in two ways, also?...