SAAs can predict cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease. Low-level α-synuclein co-pathology was detected in CSF of progressive supranuclear palsy patients. These assays could help scientists select ...

The role of ApoE has been well-studied outside of the cell, but what happens after it’s let inside? Scientists led by Raimund Dutzler, University of Zurich, have identified Tweety homologue 2 as an ...

Meet the Jekyll and Hyde of the immune system: activated CD8⁺ T cells. On June 24, researchers led by Dorian McGavern at the National Institutes of Health uncover a granzyme K–wielding subset that ...

To satisfy the incessant energy demands of their thousands of synapses, neurons have to have enormous supplies of ATP at the ready. Where does this seemingly bottomless well of energy come from? It’s ...

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Early onset familial Alzheimer disease (eFAD) is hereditary and marked by Alzheimer disease symptoms that appear at an unusually early age. Symptoms can start in a person's thirties, forties, and ...

As reported in 1994, the original SOD1-G93A strain, designated G1, expressed approximately 18 copies of human SOD1, randomly inserted into the genome (Gurney et al., 1994). An unequal crossover event ...

Score another one for amyloid immunotherapy. The anti-pyroglutamated amyloid antibody donanemab has posted positive top-line results in the Phase 3 Trailblazer-Alz2 study, according to an Eli Lilly ...

Scientists from academia, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare analysis firms reached no consensus on a threshold for meaningfulness, but broadly agreed that meaningfulness should be determined ...

In a June 12 conference at UW-Madison, researchers gathered from across the U.S. and abroad to discuss the latest progress on TDP-43 biomarkers. In all, 74 people attended in person, and 727 virtually ...

This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...

On Tuesday September 10, Francisco Lopera died of cancer at his home in Medellin, Colombia. He was 73, and only just beginning to see his life’s work come to fruition. In fact, Lopera still had much ...