In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and many cases of frontotemporal dementia, the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 abandons the nucleus and clumps up in cytoplasm, disrupting the normal workings of neurons ...
Mutations in the lipid transporter ABCA7 are known to elevate the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but how they do so has been murky. Now, scientists led by Li-Huei Tsai at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
Some evidence suggests that regular consumption of fish, nuts, fruits, veggies, and whole grains, aka the Mediterranean diet, reduces a person’s risk of dementia. APOE4, on the other hand, increases ...
The network provides high-quality brain tissue to scientists and clinicians and supports major initiatives on research into neurological disorders, including the aims of the Ministerial Action Group ...
Sponsor Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and the Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeDue Date November 13, 2025 ...
Sponsor Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and the Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeDue Date November 13, 2025 ...
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 ...
Introduction Despite being arguably the second most common dementing disorder, dementia with Lewy bodies, aka DLB, remains both mysterious and understudied. On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the Lewy Body ...
It has been clear for a while that anti-amyloid antibodies can sweep plaque from the brain, but until now the question of whether this slows cognitive decline has remained hotly contended. Despite ...
On donanemab, younger people with fewer tangles benefitted the most. On lecanemab, too, people with the fewest tangles improved most on CDR-SB. In the DIAN prevention trial, eight years of ...
In Alzheimer’s disease, defective autophagy seeds Aβ fibrils around the nuclei of neurons, which then burst, leaving amyloid plaques in their wake. This is according to researchers led by Ralph Nixon ...
Alzheimer’s researchers have long wished for better mouse models. That is now coming true. Scientists at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, are cranking out numerous lines that express ...