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Study shows that parenchymal and vascular amyloidoses are determined by the length of Aβ peptide and suggests that manipulating AβPP cleavage to prevent Aβ42 production could inadvertently cause amyloid angiopathy...
Researchers will now attempt to put the dietary supplement gingko biloba to a rigorous scientific test in the earliest stages of AD…
If your plaque-busting molecule is too small to prevent amyloid formation, have it bring along a bigger buddy...
An important RNA interference (RNAi) milestone was reported today in Nature...
Television shows about medical examiners and psychological profilers are all the rage these days. Wouldn't you like to see one about “cytological” profilers?...
Fragile X mental retardation, the most common form of inherited mental impairment, is caused by mutations in the fmr-1 gene, coding for fragile X mental retardation protein...
Though there is already plenty of evidence linking lipid metabolism and obesity to Alzheimer disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, the case just got stronger...
Combining their individual fortés, researchers treat us to the sight of neurons being "healed" before our eyes...
When molecular biologists go “fishing,” they don’t really expect to catch any fish. Not unless you’re talking about...
Sometimes it is not the drug that scuppers a clinical trial. Prana Biotechnology announced today that...
Prions, those infectious proteins responsible for scrapie, mad cow, and human diseases like Creutzfeld-Jacob, are usually deposited in the brain as...
The idea that mutations in the DJ-1 gene cause early-onset Parkinson disease is unquestioned, but just how loss of DJ-1 function leads to destruction of dopamine neurons...
The purpose of the prion protein (PrP), other than to beset cows, humans, and other animals with brain-wasting diseases, has been...
The search is on for factors that interact with the complex...
“Use it or lose it,” a common mantra in the Alzheimer disease community, stems from studies that suggest the brain is analogous to muscle...
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