A new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers one of the most comprehensive views yet of how brain ...

The dementia associated Tau protein — known for its role in microtubule regulation — has now been found to also play important roles in the nerve signaling and mitochondrial function in the brain. A ...

If you read any research about Alzheimer’s disease, two proteins are going to be your main characters. There’s amyloid-β, which builds up and forms plaques in the brain; and there’s tau, which ...

For decades, scientists believed Alzheimer’s was driven mainly by sticky protein plaques and tangles in the brain. Now Purdue ...

POTOMAC, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IGC Pharma, Inc. (NYSE American: IGC) ("IGC Pharma" or the "Company") today announced preclinical research demonstrating the therapeutic potential of IGC-1C, a novel ...

Alzheimer’s disease has proved to be a tricky target, and researchers and drug developers have been pursuing effective ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, Hameroff says, scientists don’t know whether the microtubules disintegrate and release the tau or whether the tau falls off because of a malfunction that weakens the bond. The ...

Scientists have developed a new drug that targets two key regions of the tau protein, a major contributor to Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, a peptide inhibitor called RI-AG03, successfully prevented ...

A research team at the University of Cologne has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the role of the tau protein in Alzheimer's disease. Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) ...

We address this question through investigation of the progressive nature of neurodegeneration in both invertebrate and ...

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