New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer's
A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer's disease—and also vaccinate against it—has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists.
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A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer's disease—and also vaccinate against it—has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists.
Nov 15, 2021
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A study by UT Southwestern researchers finds that changing the biochemistry of parts of brain cells abolished the formation of amyloid beta plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The finding, published in eLife, ...
Oct 29, 2021
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Worms don't wiggle when they have Alzheimer's disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis's lab at the University of Delaware.
Sep 29, 2021
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Ground-breaking new Curtin University-led research has discovered a likely cause of Alzheimer's disease, in a significant finding that offers potential new prevention and treatment opportunities for Australia's second-leading ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Cholesterol manufactured in the brain appears to play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, new research indicates.
Sep 14, 2021
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Progress on treating Alzheimer's disease has been frustratingly slow. A group of scientists in Houston suggest frustration at a very small scale may lead to a new path toward treatment.
Sep 13, 2021
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Down syndrome is mostly known for the learning disabilities it causes, but patients typically suffer from a wide number of ailments. One is the early onset of Alzheimer's disease. Using iPS cells from Down syndrome patients, ...
Sep 1, 2021
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New research published in Stem Cell Reports has found elevated cholesterol supply from astrocytes to neurons in the model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains, suggesting that modulating brain cholesterol could be explored ...
Aug 26, 2021
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Healthy adult brains are endowed with a vast number of synapses, structures that relay signals across nerve cells to enable communications, information processing and storage throughout the nervous system. Apart from dynamic ...
Aug 18, 2021
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An experimental study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that the Alzheimer's protein amyloid-beta accumulates inside nerve cells, and that the misfolded protein may then spread from cell to cell via nerve fibers. ...
Aug 18, 2021
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