amyloid
3 stories tagged "amyloid"
Brain & Aging
The Brain Was Starving Before the Plaques Showed Up: Alzheimer's Metabolic Reframe Has a Case, Not a Trial
A rising camp says failing mitochondria, not amyloid plaques, may drive Alzheimer's first. The biology is compelling and the amyloid monoculture earned its reckoning, but the metabolic side has its own retractions and not one human trial showing it works.
Brain & AgingThe amyloid-versus-tau war in Alzheimer's might be the wrong fight
A four-person UC Riverside chemistry group argues amyloid beta and tau compete for the same microtubule binding sites, a unifying mechanism that cuts under Alzheimer's research's three-decade amyloid-versus-tau fight.
Brain & AgingThe Same Mutations That Drive Blood Cancer Keep Turning Up in Alzheimer's Brains
A new Cell paper finds Alzheimer's brains are riddled with the same mutations that drive blood cancers, in the immune cells that are supposed to be protecting neurons.