CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration
Heidelberg, Germany
14 – 17 June 2017
At Heidelberg meeting, scientists shared and debated new data on microglial function.
Microglial Regulation and Function Scrutinized at Heidelberg Meeting
Instead of clearing plaques, do microglia seed them? The brain’s immune cells continue to take researchers by surprise.
A New Explanation for Dendritic Tau: It’s Made There
At a conference in Heidelberg, researchers proposed that Aβ oligomers trigger local translation of tau in cytosol and dendrites, and that targeting this aberrant tau may preserve synapses.
Alzheimer’s Proteomics Treasure Trove?
Analysis of brain tissue from Alzheimer’s patients offers a glimpse of proteomic changes in the disease.
sAPP Binds GABA Receptor, and More News on APP
An astrocytic Aβ protease, destabilization of γ-secretase by FAD mutations, and an sAPP receptor all made their debuts at Heidelberg conference.