Research Brief: If the Cap Fits...? Portable Scanners for Rodent PET
Scientists have designed the “RatCAP,” a tiny positron emission tomography system for whole-brain imaging of freely moving rodents...
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Scientists have designed the “RatCAP,” a tiny positron emission tomography system for whole-brain imaging of freely moving rodents...
Murderers often incite others to do the same; molecular killers may be no exception...
What has the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative accomplished this past year?...
The protein SMN, which causes spinal muscular atrophy when mutated, orchestrates interactions between RNAs and splicing factors in the nucleus...
If you follow Alzheimer’s disease research at all, chances are you have heard of the families in the South American nation of Colombia...
TDP-43 scouts the nucleus like a roving film editor, splicing out introns from a slew of target RNAs...
The protein survival motor neuron (SMN) is missing in children with spinal muscular atrophy...
Since discovering it as a gene for frontotemporal lobar degeneration, scientists have puzzled over what progranulin does in the central nervous system...
Touchscreen technology has come to the rodent world...
Researchers have shown that overexpression of the molecule protein kinase Mζ (PKMζ), can strengthen memories long after they have formed...
Beyond age, the next biggest risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease is having the disorder in one’s pedigree, especially on Mom’s side...
Move over, genome, transcriptome, proteome. The latest ome aims to map every metabolite linked to human health and disease. Metabolomics, although still a nascent field, offers hope for biomarkers and treatments in neurodegenerative disease. The field
Metabolomics has given researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease plenty to think about...
Researchers show that prion infection and propagation can be separated from toxicity...
For creatures ranging from yeast to worms to mice, impaired growth hormone signaling restricts size but brings big benefits...