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 ...
Epidemiological suggestions that the shingles vaccine might protect against dementia keep rolling in. Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University, presented his group’s latest findings at this year’s ...
This is a knock-in (KI) mouse model carrying a L444P mutation in the endogenous Gba (glucocerebrosidase [GC] or acid β-glucosidase) gene (Liu et al., 1998). The GBA1 protein is the lipid-degrading ...
In Pick’s disease, as in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, tangled tau spells trouble. In this subtype of FTD, abnormal clumps of three-repeat tau called Pick bodies abound in neurons.