10 Sep 2005
APP Function: A Report from Bar Harbor APP and Axonal Transport: A Report from Bar Harbor BBB/Brain Vasculature: A Report from Bar Harbor Aging and AD: A Report from Bar Harbor Enabling Technologies: A Report from Bar Harbor Recommendations: A Report from
10 Sep 2005
Researchers from the labs of William Klein and Richard Van Duyne at Northwestern University in Chicago have developed a new, highly sensitive...
10 Sep 2005
This week, a study previously reported in our Conference News appeared in PNAS. In it...
07 Sep 2005
Can a heart disease lab advance our understanding of neurodegeneration? It can, it turns out, at least when it comes to...
02 Sep 2005
The devastation that occurs by late-stage Alzheimer disease (AD) is well documented—almost every area of the...
01 Sep 2005
Two recent reports add to the growing evidence that trouble in the circulatory system can lead to...
26 Aug 2005
For now, embryonic stem (ES) cells remain perhaps the best hope for creating replacement cells and tissues...
25 Aug 2005
Well, would you know a diamond if you held it in your hand? Perhaps not without long-term potentiation...
19 Aug 2005
The vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer disease suggests that pathology starts with hypoperfusion, or decreased blood flow to the brain...
18 Aug 2005
Though we've known for some time now that the protein nicastrin is a major player in the γ-secretase complex...
17 Aug 2005
Studies in <em>Drosophila</em> have been exceedingly fruitful in teasing out physiological roles for...
16 Aug 2005
Advanced Alzheimer disease is characterized by massive loss of neurons throughout the brain, but where does the process start?...
13 Aug 2005
The progressive shortening of telomeres, those DNA caps that protect the ends of chromosomes, limits the lifespan of...
05 Aug 2005
Is it Alzheimer disease or just old age? What senior hasn’t thought as much while...
04 Aug 2005
Problems with the amyloid hypothesis notwithstanding, knowing where amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques form might be key to...