About two-thirds of people with Alzheimer’s disease are women, yet due to the challenges in studying X chromosomes, a genetic ...

Driving the Amyloid Cascade? A microglial subtype, Mic.12, promotes plaque deposition, while another, Mic.13, promotes ...

Long before carriers of autosomal-dominant AD mutations notice the first hints of memory loss, changes in their brains are ...

Hot Spot. GWAS of tau PET scans found a single locus where SNPs (circles) were associated with higher tangle loads. The strongest signal came from SNP rs2113389 (gray diamond). [Courtesy of Nho et al.

When Aβ aggregates stoke synaptic fires, tau tangles put them out. This phenomenon, demonstrated in animal models, now gains support in a human study, published September 18 in Nature Neuroscience.

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BSc Biomedical Sciences at Lancaster University MSc Neuroscience and Translational Medicine at Queen Mary University of London Now, I'm currently a PhD student at the University of Dundee, looking ...