As amyloid immunotherapy enters clinical care in more countries, providers the world over are eager for more information on how well it works, and especially how safe it is. To collect such data in ...
At the turn of the 20th century, bovine tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that infected cows and spilled over to humans via milk ran rampant in France. Today, a weakened form of that same ...
Back in July, the U.S. POINTER study showed that a structured lifestyle makeover in older adults slightly improves scores on memory and thinking tests (Baker et al., 2025; Aug 2025 conference news).
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone involved in social bonding, reproduction, and childbirth. Defects in oxytocin biology have been implicated in neurodegenerative disorders ranging from frontotemporal ...
Monoclonal antibodies continue to show their ability to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. Trouble is, those antibodies need to be injected on the regular to keep taking down their targets in the brain ...
In Pick’s disease, as in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, tangled tau spells trouble. In this subtype of FTD, abnormal clumps of three-repeat tau called Pick bodies abound in neurons.
This is a knock-in (KI) mouse model carrying a L444P mutation in the endogenous Gba (glucocerebrosidase [GC] or acid β-glucosidase) gene (Liu et al., 1998). The GBA1 protein is the lipid-degrading ...
News Peptide Brace Against AD—Insulin, Neuropeptide Y Tame Aβ Toxicity 10 Feb 2009 Aβ and Phospho-tau: Strange Bedfellows Get Intimate at Synapses 19 Sep 2008 The Skinny on FAT: APP’s Role in Fast ...
This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...
Focused ultrasound with microbubbles is a noninvasive procedure that transiently opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using low-intensity sound waves. The openings reseal within 24 hours. Using MRI to ...
reactive to aa 1-16 of Aβ and to APP; reacts to the abnormally processed isoforms, as well as precursor forms ...