Stem Cell Screen Points to ALS Disease Target
Therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have proven hard to develop, in part because of inadequate disease models...
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Therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have proven hard to develop, in part because of inadequate disease models...
A newly developed active amyloid-β vaccine removes Aβ from mouse brains while reducing inflammation and improving cognition...
For decades scientists have sought a way to sneak large drugs across the blood-brain barrier...
What if you could diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage by examining a person’s eyes?...
Skin cancer, a common and typically curable malignancy, may carry a fringe benefit—protection from Alzheimer’s disease...
Scientists report the first successful generation of human embryonic stem cells via somatic cell nuclear transfer...
In a study, scientists included rare types of parkinsonism and categorized them by their underlying proteinopathy...
As attention shifts toward free-floating Aβ oligomers as the prime molecular culprits in AD, there is still plenty of confusion over the role of fibrillar amyloid...
Could an approved diabetes medication treat Parkinson’s disease?...
Using carbon-14 to estimate the age of neurons, researchers calculate that the human brain produces around 700 new neurons per day...
Though iron gets a bad rap for accumulating in the brains of older people and individuals with neurodegenerative disease, could an abundance of this metal in the blood bode well?
Researchers have long assumed that people with familial Alzheimer’s disease make too much Aβ42 in the brain, but they lacked proof.
By looking for structural DNA variations in Alzheimer’s families, researchers identified 18 new genes that may play a role in AD pathology.
Removing a key component of the innate immune system worsens amyloid deposition but improves memory in mice that model Alzheimer's pathology.
AD but no Amyloidβ? Researchers at AAIC 2013 theorized on the pathology underlying this form of dementia.