Pumping Up Progranulin: Scientists Show New Efforts to Get it Done First Hit on Aggregated Tau: Antisense Oligonucleotide Lowers Tangles Tau Chimeras Do Make Fibrils—and a Chaperone Rips Them Apart Macrophages Blamed for Vascular Trouble in ApoE4 Carriers
Data from TRIAD cohort cast activated microglia, egged on by ApoE4, as harbingers of tau pathology and neurodegeneration. Data from BioFinder hint that other microglia restrain these processes.
One study links early menopause to tangles in early AD, another finds a sex difference in the brain's stress response. Could hormones fuel women’s higher risk of dementia?
At AD/PD, scientists zeroed in on endolysosomal mechanisms in microglia that may contribute to neurodegenerative disease. Blending omics with cellular studies leads them from genes and function.
A new PET tracer. Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein. Two new, promising surrogates for astrogliosis are filling in the Alzheimer’s biomarker toolbox. Both reflect Aβ amyloid better than they do tau tangles.
IPS cells have created excitement among researchers who see them as more available, easier to make, and less ethically conflicted than embryonic stem cells...
The anti-amyloid antibody becomes the first Alzheimer’s treatment in 20 years to receive traditional approval from the FDA. Broader Medicare coverage starts now.