5034 RESULTS
Sort By:
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-14 Conference Coverage Never mind the wrinkles and gray hair. Embattled microglia, waning neurogenesis, and withering synapses are also part and parcel of the aging process. What drives those seemingly inexorable changes inside the brain? At the Society for ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-12-14 Research News Researchers have strengthened the case that certain medical procedures can transfer amyloid pathology between people. John Collinge and Sebastian Brandner at University College London previously reported finding amyloid plaques and cerebral ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-12-14 Research News For a PET ligand, validation is literally a matter of life and death. Its reliability rides on a direct comparison of tracer uptake in a living person with his or her autopsy result. In the December 3 JAMA Neurology, Ruben Smith and Oskar ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-12-13 Research News Genetic studies of late-onset Alzheimer’s point to variations in the function of the innate immune system—and its CNS cadre, the microglia. Why would immune genes determine whether a person will get the disease? Perhaps because the innate ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-12 Conference Coverage On December 5, global leaders came together at the Wellcome Trust offices in London for a meeting of the World Dementia Council, the body charged with leading the global response to dementia and coordinating international efforts ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-12-10 Research News Dieticians recommend consuming mostly unsaturated fats for cardiovascular health and a slim waistline. Now, in a surprising twist, researchers claim one such fat, oleic acid, may worsen α-synuclein pathology. In the December 4 Molecular Cell ...
COMMUNITY NEWS 2018-12-07 Community News Earlier this year, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) dove into the field of neurodegenerative disease research, launching the Neurodegenerative Challenge Network to promote cross-disciplinary basic science research (Feb 2018 news). On ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2018-12-07 Research News A paper in the December 3 JAMA Neurology adds yet more evidence that neurofilament light (NfL) protein is a general biomarker of neurodegeneration. Scientists led by Bob Olsson and Erik Portelius, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-06 Conference Coverage If DNA makes RNA makes protein, then genomic variants make RNA make protein … make disease. While scientists have found polymorphisms that associate with various forms of frontotemporal dementia, deciphering how they perturb proteins ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-05 Conference Coverage Now that initiatives such as ARTFL and LEFFTDS have gathered sufficient numbers of participants for scientists to tackle prevention and treatment trials (see Part 2 of this conference series), the need for better tools to track onset ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-05 Conference Coverage At the 11th International Congress on Frontotemporal Dementia, held November 11–14 in Sydney, no two acronyms were heard more than ARTFL and LEFFTDS. For those readers who have not built them into their FTD vocabulary yet, Advancing ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-04 Conference Coverage Indigenous Australian people opened the 11th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementia at the International Convention Center, Sydney, November 11–14. Koomurri performers welcomed more than 600 attendees from 37 countries. ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-02 Conference Coverage Following their transcription from the genome, RNA messages exit the nucleus and enter the cytoplasm, sometimes traveling vast distances before they are finally translated into protein. RNA-binding proteins are helping hands on this ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-12-01 Conference Coverage Similar to a newborn human, nascent RNA transcripts need a lot of coddling before they realize their purpose in life (that is, translation into protein). It takes a village of RNA-binding proteins to accomplish this. They see to the ...
CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2018-11-30 Conference Coverage Hexanucleotide expansions in the first intron of the C9ORF72 gene are the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Scientists entertain several possible explanations for what ...
