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Ben Barres led the first in a series of Alzforum discussions about the role of glial cells in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. It has become trendy to say that glia are more than just glue, but in reality, science has not yet advanced ...
Elena Galea and Douglas Feinstein led this live discussion on 16 December 2002. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. See the Preamble (.pdf) to this discussion Look up abstracts of the ...
In a keynote lecture at the Human Amyloid Imaging conference, held 12-13 January 2012 in Miami, Florida, Claudia Kawas argued that the oldest old should receive more attention. Kawas leads the world’s largest study of people 90 and older. Listen to the ...
When two biological networks as complex as the nervous and immune systems cross paths, you know the interaction is not going to be simple. Add in neurodegeneration—such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—and it creates a web that will take many scientists ...
You may think the Women’s Health Study has sounded the death knell for estrogen replacement therapy, but actually, the idea is showing new signs of life. A second-generation approach with better compounds may warrant continued investment, and yet, how ...
On 25 June 2010, Ken Kosik, M.D., a neuroscientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the executive director of Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies (CFIT), led a Webinar about CFIT, which he describes as "the first full ...
Have you ever been jolted wide awake by—biostatistics? That’s what happened on the last morning of the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference held November 5-7 in Barcelona, Spain. At 8 a.m., as sleepy CTADeers slowly shuffled in, Suzanne ...
Michael R. D'Andrea led this live discussion on 4 December 2003. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Mike D'Andrea led this live discussion on 4 December 2003. ...
In the July 2 Science Translational Medicine, an international group of scientists reported how TREM2 missense mutations linked to neurodegenerative diseases impair the protein's function. The mutations prevent TREM2 from reaching the cellular ...
Like calling a spade a spade? What about an Aβ oligomer? The study of this peptide’s oligomers has taken off in the last decade. Many labs have developed their own favorite means of making, purifying, and studying them. Researchers have isolated dimers, ...
Suzanne de la Monte led this live discussion on 25 March 2005. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live Discussion led by Suzanne de la Monte on 25 March 2005. Participants: ...
Humans are not alone in accumulating Aβ in their brain. Squirrel monkeys, vervets, lemurs, apes, other nonhuman primates, and even dogs develop copious amyloid plaques and cerebral amyloid angiopathy as they age. However, most animals are spared the ...
Liz Milward led this live discussion on 22 January 2002. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Summary of Live Discussion Comments Maire Percy and Theo Kruck Hyman M. Schipper ...
June Kinoshita, with Brian Balin, Denah Appelt, Joseph Lyons, Ruth Itzhaki, and Curtis Dobson, led this live discussion on 1 July 2004. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Itzhaki RF, ...
News about a not-too-distant future of personal genomics is coming at us hard and fast. For example, the New York Times reported on June 1 that the complete DNA sequence of Nobel laureate James C. Watson, of DNA double-helix fame, has been sequenced and ...
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