Could biopsy of olfactory epithelium yield early warnings of Alzheimer's disease (AD)? This possibility was raised by George Perry and colleagues who report that oxidative damage to olfactory neurons could be a harbinger of impending AD...
Soon after the World Health Organization bestowed its approval on the protein 14-3-3 as an important diagnostic marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), reports began to come in that its sensitivity and specificity might not be all that was advertised...
Assays of Aβ or tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid can identify Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment, say the authors of a study in today’s Archives of Neurology...
Today at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, <strong>Lee Goldstein</strong> of Massachusetts General Hospital presented evidence suggesting that the Aβ peptide occurs in the eyes of people with Alzheimer’s disease...
Humans who live longer display the same biomarkers found in laboratory animals who have restricted caloric intake. However, because these human subjects weren't actively restricting their caloric intake, there may be other ways to increase life span in humans...
One of the most coveted achievements AD researchers are
striving for these days is to develop a biomarker that could, simply and
inexpensively, detect if a person has early Alzheimer's disease...