Map of Human Vascular Expression Highlights its Potential Role in Alzheimer’s
The first detailed look at expression profiles in blood vessels of the human brain identifies new cell subtypes. These cells express 30 of the top 45 AD risk genes.
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New Knock-In Mice Rapidly Accumulate Amyloid Plaques
The APP/PS1 double knock-ins begin to deposit amyloid in the brain by 3 months of age.
iNDI Aims to Standardize Human Stem Cell Research
The iPSC Neurodegenerative Disease Initiative is creating 100+ isogenic cell lines. Each carries a different risk variant for Alzheimer's or a related dementia. Scientists around the world can obtain the cells through Jackson Labs.
Forget Typical Alzheimer's: AI Finds Four Types.
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Does Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapy Need the Lymphatic System?
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People who develop Type 2 diabetes before age 60 have more than double the dementia risk, and earlier dementia onset, than those without diabetes.
Sans Nuclear TDP-43, Splicing of An ALS/FTD Gene Goes Awry
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Bio-Hermes: Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Fast, Cheap, Accessible
A new trial will compare digital and blood-based biomarkers to amyloid PET scans in order to learn which ones best pick out early plaque accumulation.
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Mapping Human Vascular Expression and its Links to AD
Encased in fibrous blood vessels, brain vascular cells are tough nuts to crack. Now, researchers have devised a way to break up the vascular material to release single nuclei for RNA sequencing. Their first map of gene expression in the human brain vasculature found differences as the vessels morphed from arteries to capillaries to veins. Some surprises included two distinct types of pericyte and two fibroblasts. Notably, vascular cells express 30 of the top 45 AD risk genes, hinting at a larger role for the vasculature in pathogenesis than had been thought.
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