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 ...

Ring-shaped RNAs floating in a person’s bloodstream might mean bad news for their brain. At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, Bridget Phillips, a ...

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 ...

Oxytocin is a peptide hormone involved in social bonding, reproduction, and childbirth. Defects in oxytocin biology have been implicated in neurodegenerative disorders ranging from frontotemporal ...

This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...

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In older women, brief suspensions of respiration during sleep (apnea) may cause more than daytime drowsiness, increased cardiovascular risk, and insulin resistance—it may also lead to mild cognitive ...

With two anti-amyloid antibodies now in clinical use, improving the safety of these treatments is front and center on clinicians’ minds. In the year since lecanemab was approved by the Food and Drug ...

The Alzheimer’s field was rocked this week by allegations against Sylvain Lesné at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lesné stands accused of manipulating data images in multiple papers, ...

Score another one for amyloid immunotherapy. The anti-pyroglutamated amyloid antibody donanemab has posted positive top-line results in the Phase 3 Trailblazer-Alz2 study, according to an Eli Lilly ...