In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for ...

A research team at the University of Cologne has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the role of the tau protein ...

The buildup of knot-like RNA structures in brain cells may be the key to understanding how uncontrolled protein aggregation drives Alzheimer’s disease.

And now, it has been suggested that Alzheimer's may not be a brain disease after all. Science magazine reported in July 2022 that a key research paper published in the journal Nature that identified a ...

Researchers have identified a specific form of the tau protein that is responsible for mediating the toxicity of harmful protein clumps in human neurons and thus represents a target for future treatme ...

Explore the spectrum of dementia, its causes, and how it impacts cognitive health, with insights into care strategies and ...

In “Doctored,” Charles Piller uncovers evidence that many important Alzheimer’s studies are based on faulty data.

Protein accumulations do important work in the human body, but something can go wrong and proliferate in those aggregates, ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a critical role for the physical interfaces of these of amyloid beta peptides in determining the chemical dynamics of their assemblies ...

When people have Alzheimer’s disease, their brains slowly accumulate abnormal clumps of two proteins: amyloid and tau. At ...

Researchers found that peristaltic pump flow mechanically breaks supersaturation to induce amyloid formation by hen egg white lysozyme, a-synuclein, amyloid b 1-40, and b2-microglobulin. The high ...