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RESEARCH NEWS 2019-10-08 Research News As if the known universe of RNAs wasn’t vast enough, here’s a new entity: circular RNA. These rings form when the ends of a linear transcript become fastened together. Are they a result of splicing gone haywire, or do they serve a purpose? T
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-10-05 Research News Critics of the amyloid hypothesis point out that some people with brain amyloid are cognitively fine, thank you very much. Indeed, variability in plaque burden among cognitively normal older people, combined with typically short follow-up pe
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-10-04 Research News The human brain follows a typical aging trajectory, but diseased brains are further along, according to a paper in the September 24 Nature Neuroscience. Scientists led by Tobias Kaufmann and Lars Westlye, University of Oslo, Norway, analyzed
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-10-03 Research News A drug being tested for its ability to calm agitation in Alzheimer’s disease provided no benefit in the TRIAD- 2 Phase 3 trial, according to topline results announced by Avanir Pharmaceuticals on September 27 (see press release). The drug,
COMMUNITY NEWS 2019-10-02 Community News Modules. Clusters. Networks. eQTLs. Big data has exposed a plethora of biological pathways and potential drug targets for AD in recent years, but how to use all this information? A new initiative aims to leverage growing reams of data into
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-09-28 Research News In a small percentage of people with Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral changes early on—such as a disregard for social norms or loss of empathy—can lead physicians to mistakenly diagnose behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). How
