CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2001-08-06 Conference Coverage Tim Clark began by laying out recommendations about the information infrastructure required if many groups want to be able to do collective experimentation, to share data, and to exploit automated pattern recognition in that shared dat
CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES Enabling Technologies 2001 Workshop Summary Summary of Scientific Discussions: Bar Harbor Summary of Technology Discussions: Bar Harbor Enabling Technologies for Alzheimer Disease Research: 2001 Bar Harbor Workshop
CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES Challenging Views of Alzheimer's Disease: Meeting Notes Challenging Views of Alzheimer's Disease
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2001-08-02 Conference Coverage Challenging Views of Alzheimer's Disease Cincinnati, Ohio, July 27-29, 2001 Summarized by Keith Crutcher and Steve Robinson Conference URL: http://www.worldeventsforum.com/alzheimer.html Related News: See BioMedNet news report (su
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-08-01 Research News In the search for those mostly still-elusive SNPs that are widely thought to predispose to complex, multigenic diseases such as schizophrenia and heart disease, one technical hurdle that slows down the search is the sheer amount of sequencin
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-26 Research News As the political debate about stem cell research heats up once again, scientists continue to wrestle with the most fundamental questions about these cells: Where do they come from? Are the stem cells scientists have extracted from the adult
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-25 Research News It has been clear for a number of years that iron accumulates in areas such as the hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease and the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease. Just what this means is uncertain, especially in given that iron
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-18 Research News Thirty European Alzheimer's Disease Centers of excellence and one nongovernmental organization, Alzheimer Europe, have established a network to carry out multicentre interventional trials under the auspices of the European Commission. T
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-12 Research News It has become part of the standard lore on Alzheimer's that a series of enzymes-dubbed α-, β-, and γ-secretase-successively chops away at the APP cell-surface protein, and that one product of γ-secretase is the infamous Aβ-peptide. Yet
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-07 Research News Using different approaches, two recent animal studies have reported some success toward achieving a goal common to several experimental AD therapies: both methods significantly lowered the Aβ burden in the brain. In last month's Neuron,
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-07-01 Research News Most research trying to coax adult central nervous system neurons into repairing nerve injury focuses on the environment through which regenerating neurons have to extend new growth cones and axons. A study published today in the Journal of
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-06-28 Research News 28 June, 2001. Researchers at Japan's Juntendo University School of Medicine report in tomorrow's Cell that they have identified a novel substrate for the parkin E3 ligase function (see previous story below.) Yuzuru Imai, Ryosuke T
RESEARCH NEWS 2001-06-28 Research News The two most prominent genes linked to inherited, monogenic Parkinson's disease-α-synuclein and parkin-are generally thought to be unconnected to each other because the forms of PD they cause are clinically and neuropathologically diffe