Assistant Gets the Glory: Lasker Award Goes to Chaperone Discovery
The 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to two scientists who established the role of molecular chaperones in protein folding...
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The 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to two scientists who established the role of molecular chaperones in protein folding...
It’s not that Alzheimer’s disease patients make too much brain Aβ; they’re slow at purging it—but why?...
Peptoids have been tested as possible antimicrobials and cancer drugs, but had not yet made their foray into neurodegenerative disease therapy...
Researchers have created a mouse model that selectively and reversibly overexpresses a mutant form of human amyloid precursor protein (APP) in the olfactory epithelium...
As direct-to-consumer genetic testing becomes increasingly popular, many have worried over how people will react to information about their genetic risk for diseases...
ALS has joined the growing list of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by fluctuations in the amino acid N-acetylaspartate (NAA)—but with a twist...
Here is one more reason teenagers need their zzz's—it appears sleep is prime time for synapse remodeling in adolescence...
We know that overindulging in cheeseburgers and fries is bad for our hearts, and growing evidence indicates it may be no better for our brains...
With so many technological advances that allow a peek inside the brain, it can be hard to keep track of the latest and greatest ways to apply imaging to the study of AD...
Researchers describe a small molecule that stabilizes oligomers of misfolded prion proteins, making them less deadly...
A dynamic view of transcription in the human brain has been revealed in two papers published in Nature...
NAPA mandated formation of an advisory council to guide the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as it formulates a national strategic plan to tackle AD...
TAR DNA binding protein 43, is in the middle of an abnormal innate immune response that compromises the spinal cord of people with the disease...
It’s become conventional wisdom in Alzheimerology that tau pathology tends to track with mental decline in people with Alzheimer’s dementia...
Humankind may owe its outsized intelligence to our microRNAs...