According to a recent study, the view that Alzheimer’s disease damages the brain irreversibly might need to change. In December 22 Cell Reports Medicine online, scientists led by Andrew Pieper of Case ...
A community cohort boasting 16,000 participants? A memory clinic that sees more than 2,000 patients per month? A countrywide goal of screening 80 percent of its aged population for AD? These are a few ...
The App SAA mouse joins a list of knock-in models that carry a humanized Aβ sequence within the murine App gene (App knock-in (humanized Aβ), APP NL-F Knock-in, APP NL-G-F Knock-in). As in the latter ...
A documentary of country legend Glen Campbell's life and “Goodbye Tour” following his diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
Despite Phase 2 Strike-Out, New Tau Antibodies Step Up to Plate Add To My AlzForum 23 Dec 2025 first-in-human studies of three tau antibodies— all aiming to stop seeded tau propagation in its ...
A single-center pilot study at the Veterans Affairs Hospital/University of Washington in Seattle reported improved verbal memory retention and attention after a three-week test of 20 international ...
Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) is a transmembrane receptor found on microglia, where it modulates cell activity and survival. In addition to membrane-associated TREM2, there ...
Buoyed by data crediting amyloid removal with ever-so-slightly slowed cognitive decline, many scientists are now optimistic about the prospects for anti-amyloid immunotherapy. Four “-mabs”—of the ...
The Alzheimer’s field was rocked this week by allegations against Sylvain Lesné at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lesné stands accused of manipulating data images in multiple papers, ...
Score another one for amyloid immunotherapy. The anti-pyroglutamated amyloid antibody donanemab has posted positive top-line results in the Phase 3 Trailblazer-Alz2 study, according to an Eli Lilly ...
On Tuesday September 10, Francisco Lopera died of cancer at his home in Medellin, Colombia. He was 73, and only just beginning to see his life’s work come to fruition. In fact, Lopera still had much ...
Lecanemab binds protofibrils more tightly than fibrils, perhaps explaining lower ARIA rate. Use of plasma biomarkers brings down trial screening cost. Lecanemab has been selected for the first amyloid ...