Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Drugs found to both prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease in mice
Researchers at USC have found that a class of pharmaceuticals can both prevent and treat Alzheimer's Disease in mice.
May 21, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New report on use of multiplex panels for diagnosing infectious diseases
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) today published a review of the current benefits and challenges to using multiplex PCR panels for the detection of microbial pathogens from gastrointestinal, central nervous system, ...
Sep 26, 2023
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Neuroscience
Basic cell health systems wear down in Huntington's disease, novel analysis shows
Using an innovative computational approach to analyze vast brain cell gene expression datasets, researchers at MIT and Sorbonne Université have found that Huntington's disease may progress to advanced stages more because ...
Feb 23, 2021
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Neuroscience
Novel pathology could improve diagnosis and treatment of Huntington's and other diseases
Bristol scientists have discovered a novel pathology that occurs in several human neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease.
Jun 30, 2020
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Neuroscience
Intervening in glial cells protects neurons in Parkinson's model
Loss of dopaminergic neurons is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease pathology. When dopaminergic neurons are stressed, they send out a call for help to nearby glial cells that are tasked with providing neuronal support, protection ...
Feb 12, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Neurodegenerative diseases identified using artificial intelligence
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to ...
Mar 4, 2019
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Health informatics
Self-teaching AI uses pathology images to find similar cases, diagnose rare diseases
Rare diseases are often difficult to diagnose and predicting the best course of treatment can be challenging for clinicians. Investigators from the Mahmood Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Neuroscience
Clinical decline in Alzheimer's requires plaque and proteins
According to a new study, the neuron-killing pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which begins before clinical symptoms appear, requires the presence of both amyloid-beta (a-beta) plaque deposits and elevated levels of ...
Apr 23, 2012
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Genetics
Genome-scale study identifies hundreds of potential drug targets for Huntington's disease
Scientists searching for ways to develop treatments for Huntington's disease (HD) just got a roadmap that could dramatically speed their discovery process. Researchers at the Buck Institute have used RNA interference (RNAi) ...
Nov 29, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
DNA vaccine and duck eggs protect against hantavirus disease
Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition ...
May 23, 2012
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