CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2001
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
10 – 15 November 2001
Post-Conference News: Oligomers, Protofibrils, and Fibrils—They Are All Bad
Extensive data supporting a central role for Aβ in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease notwithstanding, the amyloid hypothesis has its weaknesses...
Post-Conference News: Fly-Fishing for γ-Secretase Function and Substrates
A number of presentations at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting provided new insight into the biology of presenilin. First, about its function. Deletion of the notch receptor in Drosophila produces a characteristic, hypomorphic phenotype...