Why Bother With Round Robins on Blood Tests? Q&A with Kaj Blennow
What’s with all those head-to-head comparison studies of academic and commercial biomarker tests? Could we not just pick one that works, and be done?
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What’s with all those head-to-head comparison studies of academic and commercial biomarker tests? Could we not just pick one that works, and be done?
A plasma assay for Alzheimer’s could radically speed up screening for clinical trials; alas, competing assays don’t measure the same thing.
Protein levels track with cognitive function and can distinguish Alzheimer’s patients from controls.
In a tauopathy model, knocking out C3 spared synapses and neurons. In an amyloidosis model, deleting C3 preserved dendritic spines, but exacerbated plaque growth.
Older people who lived healthy lifestyles had a third lower risk of dementia than their unhealthy peers, but only if their genetic risk for the disease was low.
Loss of ataxin-1 intensifies BACE1 expression, Alzheimer’s pathogenesis. Is that how ataxin GWAS variants increase AD risk?
Smartphones and gamified apps move cognitive testing from the lab into the real world. But keeping people engaged remains a problem. Is passive monitoring the answer?
Passive monitoring of old people in their everyday lives is starting to generate new indicators for cognitive impairment.
The Phase 2 study missed its primary endpoint. While fewer developed dementia in the treatment group, the effect was not statistically significant. People on drug had less brain atrophy than those on placebo.
The study halted early when the primary endpoint was met, but an unusual trial design and lack of detailed data leave questions unanswered.
In neurons derived from FTD patients, morphological changes at the base of the axon render them hyperexcitable.
$73 million to transform big data into open-access targets and drugs for testing in clinical trials.
Negative findings for AVP-786 belie positive findings from a separate Phase 3 trial announced earlier this year.
The protein helps internalize neuronal interleukin receptors. It also promotes microglial phagocytosis. Does its absence worsen neuroinflammation and Aβ burden?
Using chemical cross-linkers to map contacts among amino acids, structural biologists predict that soluble tau is, in fact, a compact globule containing β-sheets poised to snap into a pathological formation.