In the February 10 Nature Medicine, scientists led by Jorge Llibre-Guerra and Randall Bateman at Washington University, St.

“This is a wonderful piece of work,” said Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was not involved in ...

Unlike other prior studies that detected changes in AD markers following COVID-19 infection ( Jan 2021 news; May 2023 ...

Both Tabrizi and Yang think that knocking down MSH3 could stave off HD pathology. Tabrizi noted that MSH3 also modifies other run-on repeats, including those causing fragile X syndrome, myotonic ...

In related news, other scientists recently reported that phospho-tau isoforms in the CSF mirror protofibrillar forms of tau, ...

Current: Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia Completed: Bachelor's of Medical Laboratory Science (BMLSc), University of British Columbia ...

At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and ...

Detecting toxic forms of tau before they weave into dense thickets of tangles could pave the way for earlier diagnosis and treatment of tauopathies, including Alzheimer’s disease. In the February 10 ...

Expanded repetitive sequences are infamous for causing inherited disease. Think poly-Q tracts that cause Huntington’s or the C9orf72 hexanucleotide run-ons that trigger ALS/FTD. However, given people ...