When it comes to new brain anatomy, clearance pathways seem to be the gift that keeps on giving. In a preprint posted September 27 on bioRxiv, scientists led by David Attwell at University College ...
Another tau-lowering drug has shown it can hit its target in a Phase 1 trial. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, based in Pasadena, California, reported October 14 that its brain shuttle, tau-directed siRNA, ...
In the latest development on diagnostic methods for Alzheimer’s disease going mainstream, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved clinical use of Lantheus’ tau PET tracer florquinitau, aka ...
Two groups of scientists have found that the same protein can have opposing effects on α-synuclein pathology. Microglia eliminate α-synuclein from neurons by “trogocytosis.” Silencing the glycoprotein ...
How much do blood-based biomarkers help in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease? Quite a lot, according to scientists led by Albert Puig Pijoan and Marc Suárez-Calvet at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, ...
The tau locus comes in two major genetic configurations, the H1 and H2 haplotypes. The latter carries a stretch of DNA, including the tau gene, that is flipped in orientation. As it turns out, a ...
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