neurodegeneration
3 stories tagged "neurodegeneration"
Brain & Aging
The Alzheimer's Field Spent Decades Trying to Destroy These Droplets. A Baylor Lab Says the Droplets Were Never the Problem.
A Baylor lab reports that tubulin redirects Tau and alpha-synuclein away from toxic clumping in the test tube. It is elegant mechanism work, and not yet a drug, an animal, or a person.
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.