The MCI-Park mice are compound mutant (Ndufs2fl/fl; DAT IREScre/+) animals in which Ndufs2, a gene encoding a core subunit of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, is selectively inactivated in ...

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When Alois Alzheimer described the case of Auguste D. to an audience of fellow psychiatrists in Tuebingen, Germany, in 1906, what set her case apart was the fact that her dementia appeared before she ...

What goes wrong first in the Alzheimer’s disease brain? Scientists led by Marc Aurel Busche of the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at University College London may have an answer. In the May 7 Neuron ...

What are physicians learning from their early experiences prescribing amyloid immunotherapy? In the May 12 JAMA Neurology, Joy Snider and Suzanne Schindler and colleagues at Washington University, St.

Clusterin, we’re sorry—we misjudged you. Long cast as Aβ’s villainous sidekick (Jan 2014 news; Apr 2023 news), the chaperone now looks more like a friendly superhero. Provided, that is, our genes let ...

Atherosclerotic arteries aren’t just a problem for the heart—they’re bad news for the brain, too. Now, scientists led by Wei Wang, Dai-Shi Tian, and Chuan Qin of Huazhong University of Science and ...

As biomarker testing becomes more common in Alzheimer’s research, scientists face the tricky question of whether to disclose results. In studies of hypothetical scenarios, including a recent survey ...

Now that doctors are prescribing anti-amyloid therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have begun to focus their energy on the other pathological hallmark of AD, neurofibrillary tangles. While ...

Neurofibrillary tangles mark Alzheimer’s disease and a plethora of primary tauopathies. How best to study them in the lab? Most mouse tauopathy models overexpress the human tau protein and are highly ...

In a milestone for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 16 cleared for marketing the first AD blood test. Fujirebio’s Lumipulse G p-tau217/Aβ42 ...

From April 24-25, the Tau Global Conference, a.k.a. Tau2025, drew 600 people to a hotel in Hyde Park, London, with 500 more following the science online. Attendance well surpassed Tau2020, the first, ...