Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease are rapidly transforming the way clinicians diagnose the disease. Still, some scientists urge caution when interpreting results, arguing that the meaning of a ...
Rarely do scientists discover a new pathogenic mutation for a sporadic disease. Even less often do they find one that explains half the cases. Pinning disease on a dinucleotide expansion? That’s a new ...
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Circular RNAs are the byproducts of aberrant “backsplicing.” They accumulate and cause problems in the brain with age. According to a study published March 5 in Molecular Cell, ribonuclease κ—an ...
Studies have confirmed the existence of neurogenesis in the adult human brain, but whether newborn neurons bolster cognitive abilities remains controversial. In the February 25 Nature, scientists led ...
The MCI-Park mice are compound mutant (Ndufs2fl/fl; DAT IREScre/+) animals in which Ndufs2, a gene encoding a core subunit of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, is selectively inactivated in ...
Tau made in the brain eventually shows up in blood, but scientists still aren’t sure how it gets there. Now, research featured in Cell Press Blue offers a new idea. This journal launched in January to ...
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Cerebral small vessel disease is an umbrella term for disorders that cause the brain’s small blood vessels to stiffen, narrow, clog, or leak. cSVD increases a person’s risk for stroke and is a common ...
The notion that lithium might treat Alzheimer’s was revived last year when scientists reported that the brains of people and mice with amyloid pathology are deficient in the metal ion, and that the ...
The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center unites the collections of the neuropathology cores at 27 NIA-funded AD Research Centers into a single database. It contains records on 13,000 brains, 3,000 ...
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