New Blood Test Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s
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Preeti Jha
| December 10th, 2018
Scientists have developed a new blood test that could help diagnose and even predict Alzheimer’s disease in the latest research offering an alternative to…
Eliminating ‘Zombie’ Brain Cells Could Prevent Alzheimer’s
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Emily Woodruff
| September 19th, 2018
Inside your brain, there are 100 billion cells carrying out the daily tasks of keeping you alive and feeding you information: transmitting messages from…
Asthma Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice
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Emily Woodruff
| June 22nd, 2018
What if a drug to press rewind on the damage Alzheimer’s causes already exists? That’s what researchers at Temple University asked when they gave…
New Study Shows How Tau Spreads Across the Brain in Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| January 5th, 2018
New advances in brain imaging have allowed scientists from Cambridge University to track how tau, a protein that accumulates in the brain in Alzheimer’s…
Alzheimer’s Drug Completes Phase 3 Trial With Optimism—But Is It Cause to Celebrate?
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Being Patient
| November 29th, 2017
On the heels of recent Alzheimer’s drug failures by companies like Eli Lilly, Merck and Axovant, one pharmaceutical company is insisting there is a…
Decreasing ‘Stress Granules’ Could Stop Dementia
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Being Patient
| November 21st, 2017
November 21, 2017 Scientists have known for a long time that the accumulation of two proteins, beta-amyloid and tau, signify Alzheimer’s presence in the…
Does Alzheimer’s Actually Begin Outside the Brain?
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Being Patient
| October 29th, 2017
November 1, 2017 Since Alzheimer’s was first diagnosed over 100 years ago, scientists have been probing and searching the brain for answers to why…
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