Tau hyperphosphorylation and conformational changes in the brain parenchyma start around seven months. Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser ...
More Antibodies take aim at seeded propagation. New data ties tangle location to deficits in specific cognitive domains. Three first-in-human studies for antibodies targeting different parts of tau ...
reactive to aa 1-16 of Aβ and to APP; reacts to the abnormally processed isoforms, as well as precursor forms ...
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).
Ring-shaped RNAs floating in a person’s bloodstream might mean bad news for their brain. At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, Bridget Phillips, a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
R47H is a rare variant in TREM2 that triples the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in heterozygous carriers. Several murine Trem2 R47H knock-in lines have been created using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, but ...
Epidemiological suggestions that the shingles vaccine might protect against dementia keep rolling in. Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University, presented his group’s latest findings at this year’s ...
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 ...
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 ...