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Automated Imaging Detects and Tracks Brain Protein Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease

February 3, 2021
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Boston, MA — Amyloid-beta and tau are the two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease, and detecting their buildup at an early...

Automated Imaging Reveals Where TAU Protein Originates in the Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease

January 21, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers have developed an automated method that can track the development of harmful clumps of TAU protein related to Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, according to work...

Researchers Discover a Rare Genetic Form of Dementia

October 5, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also sheds light on a new pathway that leads to protein build up in...

Unlocking the Mystery of Tau for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases

September 10, 2020
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Nagoya, Japan — Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a type of dementia that appears earlier in life than Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Both FTLD and AD, along with several other neurodegenerative...

Plasticity may Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

June 30, 2020
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New York, NY — Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to Alzheimer’s disease and die when that remodeling goes awry, a new study suggests. The work is the first to track the progression...

Could Targeting Alzheimer’s-Associated Protein Prevent Autism?

March 3, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — Autism manifests in myriad forms. Symptoms and severity vary from person to person, but all autism spectrum disorders share three core symptoms: impaired social interactions, communication...

Tau-Mediated RNA Splicing Errors Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

October 8, 2019
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Houston, TX — A collaborative study published today in the journal Cell Reports provides evidence for a new molecular cause for neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by researchers...

Tracking Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Single Neuronal Cells

September 26, 2019
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Coventry, UK — University of Warwick researchers have developed a superior method to describe the very earliest effects that Alzheimer’s Disease proteins have on the properties of brain cells. In...

Hidden Differences Between Pathology of CTE and Alzheimer’s Disease, Researchers Discover

March 21, 2019
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Bloomington, IN — An international team of scientists at Indiana University School of Medicine, University of Kansas and the U.K. Medical Research Council have dismantled the belief that Alzheimer’s...

Untangling Tau: Researchers Find a ‘Druggable Target’ for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

January 25, 2019
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San Diego, CA — The accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and tangles of a protein called tau in the brain are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Much effort has focused on the former,...

One Type of Brain Cell May Invite Alzheimer’s, Says Study

December 19, 2018
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Columbus, OH — Better tactics for detecting, preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease depend on a clearer understanding of cellular-level changes in the minds of patients, and a new study has uncovered...

Neurons with Good Housekeeping are Protected from Alzheimer’s

December 17, 2018
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New York, NY — Some neurons in the brain protect themselves from Alzheimer’s with a cellular cleaning system that sweeps away toxic proteins associated with the disease, according to a new study...

Researcher Identifies Promising Diagnostic Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease

December 10, 2018
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified in live human brains new radioactive “tracer” molecules that bind to and “light up” tau tangles, a protein...

Alzheimer’s-Associated Tau Protein Disrupts Molecular Transport within Neurons

September 6, 2018
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Boston, MA — A multi-institutional study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found how the abnormal form of tau that accumulates in...

Secret Sulfate Code that Lets Bad Tau In

July 16, 2018
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Dallas, TX — Researchers have uncovered details of how cells invite inside corrupted proteins that can turn normal proteins corrupt, leading to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and...

Assessment of Biomarkers of Subconcussive Head Trauma

May 29, 2018
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Charlottesville, VA — Researchers evaluated the usefulness of biomarker testing in determining the potential extent of brain trauma suffered from repetitive subconcussive head impacts sustained over...

Tau Mutations may Increase Cancer Risk, Research Finds

May 24, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA — Mutations to the protein tau, commonly associated with neurodegenerative disorders, may serve as a novel risk factor for cancer.

How Small Molecule Halts Spread of Toxic Protein Associated with Alzheimer’s Progression

May 2, 2018
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Los Angeles, CA — Researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing and the department of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have reported a promising drug strategy that blocks tau tr...

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