Alzheimer’s disease may have once spread from person to person, but the risk of this happening today is incredibly low.
PET scan of a human brain suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Credit: public domain An article published this week in the ...
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High-fiber diet may delay clinical onset of Huntington’s disease, study finds
Credit: Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health Professor Anthony Hannan de Florey, head of the Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity ...
Scientists discover potential way to repair damaged synapses in Alzheimer’s disease
The art describes the recovery of functional plasticity at the synapses of neurons despite Tau protein-induced toxicity in the brain. ...
Controversial treatment for Alzheimer’s disease withdrawn from market
A controversial drug against Alzheimer's disease, which was presented as the first to treat this neurodegenerative condition, has been withdrawn ...
Revitalizing mitochondria to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Nerve cells in Alzheimer's disease show a decrease in connections between nerve cells, called synapses, shown here in the blue ...
Analysis reveals biomarkers that improve accuracy of predicting cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes
Global distribution of origin and ancestry of the populations studied and countries of affiliation and gender distribution of the authors ...
Study identifies promising target for treatment of colitis-induced inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancers
This image shows the effect of pro-inflammatory cytokines on the growth of a mouse intestinal organoid. Intestinal stem cells (red) ...
A ‘radically different’ way of looking at Parkinson’s disease
The model emphasizes the important interactions between three biological factors contributing to Parkinson's disease: the presence of pathological α-synuclein in ...
Could bizarre visual symptoms be a telltale sign of Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain A team of international researchers, led by UC San Francisco, has completed the first large-scale study ...
New study finds that short, toxic RNAs kill brain cells and may enable the development of Alzheimer’s disease
A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. The nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue) are highlighted. Note that this is ...
