Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez of Harvard Medical School praised the results. “Ye’s group has now provided compelling evidence showing increased binding affinity of ApoE3 Christchurch for tau and its ...

The Senescence Accelerated Mouse-Prone 8 (SAMP8) is a naturally occuring mouse line that displays a phenotype of accelerated aging. While maintaining an inbred AKR/J line in the early 1970's, ...

C-terminal amidation is a PTM that involves the addition of an amid group to the C-terminus of a peptide or protein. Currently there is no direct evidence to suggest that C-terminal amidation of ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eisai and Biogen’s application for IV maintenance dosing of lecanemab on January 27. Previously, the label called for biweekly IV dosing. The new ...

For each structural strain of tau fibrils, they identified amino acids without which the strain cannot form its signature ...

Sphere of Influence. In iAssembloids, microglia (red) form projections (white arrows), while astrocytes (green) assume star shapes typically found in the brain. [Courtesy of Kampmann et al., 2025.] ...

This transgenic model of tauopathy expresses MAPT with the P301S mutation, which is associated with autosomal-dominant disease in humans. The hTau.P301S model recapitulates several molecular, cellular ...

Could synucleinopathies start in the kidneys? In the January 23 Nature Neuroscience, scientists led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China, report that, in people with Parkinson’s and Lewy body ...

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The X contains more genes related to brain function than does any other chromosome. “The X chromosome may be a treasure trove of genes that influence cognition, and these could be therapeutic targets, ...