Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...
Scientists discovered the reaction which starts the formation of amyloid fibers. Amyloid fibers are problematic in many diseases and disorders...
Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....
Research using tobacco plants and Arabidopsis Thaliana weeds has answered long standing mysteries about sexual reproduction in plants. The research...
Oxford University scientists have developed a new method for delivering complex drugs directly to the brain, a necessary step for...
Indications of Alzheimer’s disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease have lower glucose utilization in the brain than those with normal cognitive function, and that those decreased levels may be detectable approximately 20 years prior to the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
‘Cold sores’ connected to cognitive decline Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute...
Study finds brain damage typical of aging and memory loss after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution If mice commuted, their...
It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...
Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural...
No one knows the cause of most cases of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders. But researchers have found that certain factors are consistently associated with these debilitating conditions. One is DNA damage by reactive oxygen species, highly destructive molecules usually formed as a byproduct of cellular respiration. Another is the presence of excessive levels of copper and iron in regions of the brain associated with the particular disorder.
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made...
