Is it three steps forward one step back for blood tests? At the 18th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease, held December 1–4 in San Diego, new data on the FDA-approved Fujirebio Lumipulse plasma ...
In Pick’s disease, as in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, tangled tau spells trouble. In this subtype of FTD, abnormal clumps of three-repeat tau called Pick bodies abound in neurons.
Aβ and tau get much of the glory in Alzheimer’s disease, but the disease is far more complex than two proteins. Scientists know, for example, that lipid metabolism goes awry, but identifying ...
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