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In Alzheimer’s disease, some microglia gather around plaques, while others seem aloof, opting to keep their distance. In the July 14 Nature Neuroscience, scientists led by Marco Prinz at the ...
Artificial intelligence learns to recognize subtle biochemical features of γ-secretase substrates. Screening potential transmembrane proteins identifies 250 substrates, including 160 novel ones. These ...
Eight months after Eli Lilly reported that a more gradual titration for donanemab nearly halved the risk of ARIA-E, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the modification the green light.
Why do some people age rapidly while others maintain their health well into their 80s and 90s? A new study suggests that maintaining “youthful” organs may be key. Scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray at ...
Anatomy explorers have charted a new path myeloid cells use to access the brain. On 3 June in Neuron, scientists led by Lindsay Hohsfield and Kim Green, both at the University of California, Irvine, ...
Massage might help your brain flow regain its mojo. On June 4 in Nature, researchers led by Gou Young Koh at the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, mapped the labyrinth of lymphatics ...
Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma markers are now being used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s in memory clinics, but what about using them to stage the disease? That’s the next big step, said Henrik ...
Over the last 40 years, age-adjusted dementia prevalence in the U.S. has dropped by two-thirds. This predicts a 25 percent rise in total dementia cases by 2050, due to population aging. The findings ...
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 ...
A new multiplex diagnostic method appears poised to resculpt the biomarker landscape. NULISA, aka NUcleic acid Linked Immunosorbent Assay, can detect Aβ peptides, p-tau isoforms, and other potential ...
The two new deaths seem to be of the third category. At baseline, the APOE4 homozygote at Columbia had one microhemorrhage on MRI, and no signs of CAA, and appeared to be a good candidate for the ...
In diseases driven by dysfunctional microglia, could replacing them with healthy versions prevent, or even reverse, pathology? Yes, suggest two papers in the June 18 Neuron. Both describe how mice ...