Using an experimental drug called FP802, researchers blocked the protein pair from binding and saw effects of the ...

Scientists have long been racking their brains to crack the mechanism behind Alzheimer’s disease progression. They may have ...

A newly identified protein pair may drive brain cell death in Alzheimer’s, offering a clearer explanation of how the disease progresses.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “death switch” in the brain that may be driving Alzheimer’s disease—and even found a way ...

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism by which brain cells die. A team led by scientists at the German research ...

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New research points to a toxic protein interaction that may speed up brain cell damage, and a potential way to block it.

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For decades, scientists have known that a misbehaving protein sits at the heart of Parkinson’s disease, yet the precise chain of events that turns that protein into brain cell death has remained ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who ...