Alzheimer's disease is likely caused by stalled protein processing in the brain, according to a new study. For several decades, researchers studying Alzheimer's disease have been working to understand ...

Amyloid beta is a peptide that plays a central role in the neurodegenerative pathology of Alzheimer’s disease by aggregating into plaques in the brain. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital demonstrated for the first time that the protein midkine plays a preventative role against Alzheimer's disease. Midkine is known to accumulate in ...

Share on Pinterest New research looks into the role of amyloid-beta in developing Alzheimer’s. Westend61/Getty Images A main theory behind the cause of Alzheimer’s disease is the build-up of the ...

Selkoe is co-director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Mass General Brigham, and Vincent and Stella Coates professor of neurologic diseases at Harvard Medical ...

A recent study led by a team of researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examining aging mice has provided what is believed to be the first evidence that amyloid beta ...

Share on Pinterest Dopamine could potentially treat Alzheimer’s by stimulating the production of an enzyme that breaks down beta-amyloid plaques, researchers say. Qi Yang/Getty Images One of the ...

TOKYO, Feb 14, 2025 - (JCN Newswire) - - Oita University and Eisai Co., Ltd. (Eisai) announced today the development of a machine learning model to predict amyloid beta(1)(Abeta) accumulation in the ...