One of the basic research flavors that wafted pungently through the 9th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders is the growing sense that intraneuronal Aβ may...
If you’ve ever shone a flashlight through your hand and noticed what comes out on the other side, you have seen for yourself why red light could, in theory, make a medium for live diagnostics...
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A study published yesterday in the online Annals of Neurology provides a glimpse at the complexity involved in the time- and cell-specific neurodegeneration of Huntington's disease...
Since the human genome sequence was published, the search for single nucleotide polymorphisms that contribute to disease has ramped up. But what about copy number polymorphisms?...
In this week’s Nature, researchers report that cramming, as in the activity of the protease inhibitor crammer, may play a key role in <em>Drosophila</em> long-term memory...
Two articles in the July 8 issue of Neuron may provide a leap forward in understanding how mutations in copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) lead to...