Microvessels form the blood-brain barrier, a network that regulates molecular transfer between the vasculature and brain parenchyma. In cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), a leading cause of stroke ...
Amyloid immunotherapies are here, but inflammaging remains a powerful driver of neurodegenerative disease. Neuroinflammation is a rich, but thus far quite elusive, source of new drug targets. Some ...
As amyloid immunotherapy enters clinical care in more countries, providers the world over are eager for more information on how well it works, and especially how safe it is. To collect such data in ...
The center collects, processes, stores, and distributes samples, including longitudinal samples, from its research participants. Collections are taken from donors in their 40s to late 90s in a limited ...
reactive to aa 1-16 of Aβ and to APP; reacts to the abnormally processed isoforms, as well as precursor forms ...
Back in July, the U.S. POINTER study showed that a structured lifestyle makeover in older adults slightly improves scores on memory and thinking tests (Baker et al., 2025; Aug 2025 conference news).
Ring-shaped RNAs floating in a person’s bloodstream might mean bad news for their brain. At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, Bridget Phillips, a ...
This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...
At CTAD, a clinical trial of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine in diabetes suggests a reshaping of the brain’s protein landscape in ways that might keep AD at bay.
At the turn of the 20th century, bovine tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that infected cows and spilled over to humans via milk ran rampant in France. Today, a weakened form of that same ...
Monoclonal antibodies continue to show their ability to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. Trouble is, those antibodies need to be injected on the regular to keep taking down their targets in the brain ...
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone involved in social bonding, reproduction, and childbirth. Defects in oxytocin biology have been implicated in neurodegenerative disorders ranging from frontotemporal ...