Paper Alert: Nipping Tau Tangles in the Bud
Just as amyloid-β toxicity may be attenuated by proteases such as insulin degrading enzyme and neprilysin, tau toxicity...
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What Role BDNF?—A Question of Maturity
In life, you wouldn’t trust a child to do an adult’s job. In the brain, the same might be true...
SfN: Where, How Does Intraneuronal Aβ Pack Its Punch? Part 1
The story of intraneuronal Aβ has generated a steady buzz at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience...
SfN: Where, How Does Intraneuronal Aβ Pack Its Punch? Part 3
This is the third installment of a four-part news series about intraneuronal Aβ from the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroscience...
SfN: Latest Intel on LRRK2, Parkin
In the aftermath of a recent spate of gene discoveries for Parkinson disease, some of the prizes scientists were chasing...
Secretion of SOD1 Mutant Proteins Tied to ALS
In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), motor neurons in the spinal cord and central nervous system die off for unknown reasons...
Translational Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease Research, Part 3
This is part 3 of a 5-part series. See also <a href="/news/conference-coverage/translational-biomarkers-alzheimer-disease-research-part-1">part 1</a> and <a href="/news/conference-coverage/translational-biomarkers-alzheimer-disease-research-part-2">part 2</a>...
Hunger Hormone Ghrelin Enters Realm of Learning and Memory
Who says you can’t work on an empty stomach? You won’t get far lifting weights, but you may be able to...
Shedding Assumes α Status
Part 6 of our 11-part Eibsee conference series.
Green Glowing Prions Gather in Golgi
Normal cellular prion protein (PrPc) is easy to spot on the surface of neurons and glia in the CNS by antibody staining. But when the protein converts...
New Neuronal Fare—A Dish of Stem Cells with a Side of Jumping Genes
This week, light from two very different angles was shone on the process of neurodevelopment. Writing in PNAS, researchers described a method to...
You Gotta Keep 'em Separated—New Strategy for Targeting γ-secretase?
The intramembrane protease activity of γ-secretase is a prime target for therapeutic strategies aimed at treating Alzheimer disease by...
Dublin: The Tao of Tau
Followers of the Tao eastern philosophy advocate complete simplicity and naturalness; followers of the tau protein...
Sorrento: Sorting Out Shedding of Ectodomains
Not only the sweet scent from the ubiquitous citrus trees aroused the senses at the 7th international AD/PD meeting in Sorrento, but the unlikely theme of...
San Diego: ApoE Effects Explored
Studies on ApoE have exploded since it was discovered that those carrying one copy of ApoE4 allele are more likely to get the disease than...
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