DIAN, Roche, Lilly disclose that neither gantenerumab nor solanezumab slowed cognitive decline in the first-pass comparison of drug and placebo groups. Analyses are ongoing; dose may have been too low.
A panel of experts concludes the evidence for this scary prospect is weak, but recommends neurosurgeons use separate neurosurgical instruments for young and old patients. The experts called for further studies.
Scientists have turned their attention toward testing therapies in early-stage patients who have underlying brain pathology but little to no functional impairment...
After veru- and atabecestat, now a third β-secretase inhibitor, by Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca, is being pulled from ongoing Phase 3 trials of symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease.
Viral surfaces attract proteins from the extracellular environment of the person they infect. This corona of host proteins makes the virus more or less infective—and promotes amyloid fibrils.
The L1CAM cell adhesion marker is a widely adopted marker of neuron-derived extracellular vesicles. Except it cannot be found in those teeny packets, claims a new study.
The APOE3-Jacksonville variant generates a protein whose greater lipid-hauling capacity renders it less prone to self-aggregate. This boosted phospholipid trafficking and reduced the number of plaques and downstream damage.
Add a new strand to the growing web of relationships among production of the Aβ peptide, regulation of cholesterol and other lipids, oxidative stress, and the death of neurons in Alzheimer's. Researchers believe that Aβ drives an increase in the conversion of...
Francis Collins announced that $16 million of federal funds would go toward the first-ever therapeutic prevention trial in cognitively healthy people...