Tag: tau
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Nation & World
Start of new era for Alzheimer’s treatment
Neurologist explains why recent trial of the drug lecanemab may offer hope for those with deadly disease.
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Nation & World
The brain that defied Alzheimer’s
The brain of a woman with a family history of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease who lived dementia-free into her 70s is providing researchers with important information about the pathobiology of Alzheimer’s dementia and possible ways to prevent or treat it.
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Nation & World
‘Zinc fingers’ may help treat Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau — a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease — in an animal model of the condition.
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Nation & World
Tracking the proteins before Alzheimer’s takes hold
A team led by investigators has now developed an automated method that can identify and track the development of two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Nation & World
Alzheimer’s in a dish
Harvard stem cell scientists have successfully converted skins cells from patients with early onset Alzheimer’s into the types of neurons affected by the disease, making it possible for the first time to study this leading form of dementia in living human cells.