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 ...

Is it three steps forward one step back for blood tests? At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, new data on the FDA-approved Fujirebio Lumipulse plasma ...

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.

Aβ and tau get much of the glory in Alzheimer’s disease, but the disease is far more complex than two proteins. Scientists know, for example, that lipid metabolism goes awry, but identifying ...

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 ...

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Focused ultrasound with microbubbles is a noninvasive procedure that transiently opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using low-intensity sound waves. The openings reseal within 24 hours. Using MRI to ...

Good managers set the tone for the whole team, encouraging positive behavior from everyone around them. In the November 5 Nature, scientists introduce a subtype of microglia that appears to do just ...

How can scientists coax microglia to chew up more Aβ? In the November Alzheimer’s & Dementia, a group led by Rudolph Tanzi at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, revived an old idea. They ...

The days when reading a few papers brought scientists up to speed on the developments in their field are gone. Now scientists face mounting volumes of deeply complex datasets, and not remotely enough ...

Scientists have spotted a new variety of riled-up microglia that drives swelling in the human brain. In the November 18 Neuron, researchers from China led by Haixiao Liu, Shunnan Ge, and Yan Qu at ...

L444P KI mice were generated using a loxP replacement vector, resulting in the insertion of a point mutation of leucine to proline (L444P) in exon 10 of the Gba1 gene (Ginns et al., 2014). These Gba1 ...