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A single protein can force the brain to clear its own Alzheimer’s plaques — and scientists activated it in living animals
For decades, the brain’s own immune cells have watched Alzheimer’s plaques accumulate and done almost nothing about it. Now a ...
Scientists have discovered a way to help the brain clean itself of harmful Alzheimer’s plaques by activating its own support cells. By increasing a protein called Sox9, researchers were able to boost ...
Scientists in Japan found that arginine, a common amino acid already used in supplements and medicine, reduced harmful ...
A new experimental Alzheimer’s compound called FLAV-27 improved memory and reduced disease-like damage in worms and mice.
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Scientists activate the brain’s own cleanup crew to clear Alzheimer’s plaques by boosting a single protein called Sox9
More than 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease accounts for the majority of cases. For ...
Drugs designed to clear amyloid beta from the brain—once seen as a promising path to slowing Alzheimer’s—may not actually ...
A major review challenges a long-standing strategy in Alzheimer’s research, suggesting that removing a hallmark brain protein may not lead to meaningful improvements for patients.
Are anti-amyloid drugs as effective against Alzheimer’s disease as experts had hoped? Image credit: smodj/Getty Images Some of these medications include anti-amyloid drugs, which work to remove ...
Exposure to more traffic-related air pollution is associated with greater levels of amyloid plaques in the brain, with exposure in the 3 years before death having the greatest risk, a new postmortem ...
Researchers at Niigata University have used advanced three-dimensional (3D) imaging to reveal how amyloid β (Aβ) deposits spread along blood vessels in the human brain in cerebral amyloid angiopathy ...
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