“This is a wonderful piece of work,” said Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was not involved in the research. “It now seems possible to use [plasma p-tau217] to track the ...

Unlike other prior studies that detected changes in AD markers following COVID-19 infection ( Jan 2021 news; May 2023 conference news ), first author Duff and colleagues had baseline data on every ...

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...

Although efforts to identify biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease are advancing rapidly, many still struggle to obtain information from populations other than non-Hispanic white people. At the Human ...

The hunt for blood-based biomarkers is continuing apace. At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and blood, conference ...

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 ...

In the Alzheimer’s field, conventional wisdom holds that the growth of amyloid plaques in the brain soaks up Aβ42 peptide, depleting it from cerebrospinal fluid. Now, in the February 12 Nature Aging ...

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