How exercise can lower Alzheimer’s risk. “Now, closely examining cells from geriatric animals’ blood-brain barriers, the researchers noticed that a damaging protein, known as TNAP, proliferated on the surface of those cells in far greater numbers than on cells from […]
Mouse Alzheimer’s reversed in new study. “Remarkably, not only did preserving NAD+ balance protect mice from developing AD, but delayed treatment in mice with advanced disease also enabled the brain to fix the major pathological events driven by the disease-causing […]
Cancer may help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s. Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person. Now, a study reveals that a protein from cancer cells might infiltrate […]
“A look inside the brains of engineered mice suggests therapies might need to target two key proteins — tau and amyloid-beta — at the same time.” This is from 2019. I’m not sure where this idea has led researchers. ~ learn more
“Yes,” says Dr. Donald Weaver, co-Director of the Krembil Brain Institute and author of new research published in the peer-reviewed journal, Alzheimer’s & Dementia. “We don’t think of Alzheimer’s as fundamentally a disease of the brain. We think of it […]
Big Alzheimer’s disease news this week: positive results for an anti-amyloid therapy. Researcher Derek Lowe takes a more sober view: “As the world knows, the anti-amyloid clinical landscape for Alzheimer’s is absolutely littered with failures in every direction: anti-amyloid antibodies […]
“A new study has uncovered a previously unknown hairpin-like structure within this protein that proved critical to an antibody response seen in mice, with an engineered version of the protein fragment also laying the groundwork for a vaccine against the […]
The approval came despite the advisory committee’s near-unanimous vote against it. “The approval, however, will do little to quell criticisms from the swath of Alzheimer’s researchers, biostatisticians, and clinicians who have argued that Biogen cherry-picked data and failed to show […]
“Researchers disclosed a potentially useful biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease at a major conference this summer. The good news for clinical laboratories is that the biomarker is found in blood. If further research confirms these early findings, medical laboratories could one […]
“Scientists in Australia have made an exciting breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research, demonstrating what they describe as the first gene-therapy-based approach for treating advanced forms of the disease.” | learn more