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RNA molecules

Lifelong RNA Molecules Hold the Key to Long-lived Brain Cells

Categories Health

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that treating mice with an antibody that blocks the interaction between APOE proteins (white) sprinkled within Alzheimer’s disease plaques and the LILRB4 receptor on microglia cells (purple) activates them to clean up damaging plaques (blue) in the brain.

New Alzheimer’s Treatment Shows Promise by Activating Brain’s Immune Cells

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

A brain dissolving

Scientists Uncover Potential Ways to Prevent Spread of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

a very fit person holding a pill

Scientists Discover Compounds That Mimic Exercise Benefits in Cells

Categories Health

brain rna illustration

New cause of neuron death in Alzheimer’s

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

cells

Improved cellular recycling could benefit patients with neurodegenerative conditions

Categories Health

Lipid deposits (green) in brain immune cells (red) from mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease all but disappear (right) after the mice are treated with an experimental drug. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a form of cholesterol known as cholesteryl esters builds up in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease, and that clearing out the cholesteryl esters helps prevent brain damage and behavioral changes.

Lowering a form of brain cholesterol cuts Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice

Categories Brain & Behavior

The biosensor and reader are designed to be used at home or at a point of care. The system can transmit results wirelessly to physicians, patients and patient's caregivers and family.

Wireless, handheld, non-invasive device detects Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s biomarkers

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) in vivo. Image by Erin Gibson.

Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration

Categories Brain & Behavior

A study led by Stanford Medicine researchers provides insight into aging of the brain. Adobe Stock/kulkann

Researchers identifies gene ‘fingerprint’ for brain aging

Categories Brain & Behavior

Complex sugar molecules control the formation of perineuronal nets (shown here in green) that surround neurons to help stabilize connections in the brain.

Sugars affect brain ‘plasticity,’ helping with learning, memory, recovery

Categories Brain & Behavior

a The presence of extracellular β-amyloid deposition as neuritic plaques and the intracellular accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau as neuro fibrillary tangles remain the primary neuropathologic features for AD diagnosis, and the amyloid deposition begins with the conversion of native monomers with more α-helices to an alternative conformation with β-sheet that self-associate into ordered assemblies. b A terahertz (THz) wave at a frequency of 34.88 THz delays the fibrosis dynamic curve. c The wave decreased the aggregation speed to 80% of the case without the wave. d The wave promotes cell proliferation. e The wave loosens the dense protein conformation with transformed β-sheets to a structure with more coil and bend regions

Potential Alzheimer’s treatment would use high-frequency terahertz radiation

Categories Brain & Behavior

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New brain cells can replace diseased and aged cells, could help people with severe brain diseases

Categories Brain & Behavior

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