Tag: tau

  • 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.

    8 minutes
    Illustration of cells in an Alzheimer’s affected brain.
  • 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.

    4 minutes
    Brain illustration.
  • 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.

    2 minutes
    Tau proteins
  • 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.

    3 minutes
    Brain PET sanc
  • 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.

    5 minutes