CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-10-26 Conference Coverage Alzheimer’s disease is twice as common among African-Americans than non-Hispanic whites. Or is it? African-Americans have greater cerebrovascular risk factors. Do those lead to AD, or to vascular or mixed dementia? African-Americans ha
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-10-26 Conference Coverage On October 10th, nine days before the National Institutes on Aging released a national strategy document on inclusion and representation of minority participants in research into Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD),
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-10-26 Research News When it comes to appreciating the depths of genome regulation, reading the genetic code itself is but the tip of the iceberg. Modifications to those DNA sequences, and to the histones they hug, dictate which genes will be expressed when and
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-10-23 Research News The genomes we inherit from our parents are not set in stone. After sperm meets egg, and mitosis is on its merry way, mutations occur in our DNA. They give rise to populations of cells harboring unique genomes and indeed, researchers suspect