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Back in mid-June, Alzforum reported on how the AD research field was being buffeted by cuts in funding to the National Institutes of Health (Jun 2025 news; Jun 2025 news). At the time, scientists felt ...
Statins do not help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, but another cholesterol-controlling drug just might. Obicetrapib blocks cholesteryl esters being transferred from the “good” high-density lipoproteins ...
“We have a positive trial,” announced Laura Baker of Wake Forest University, North Carolina, drawing cheers during her plenary at the 2025 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in ...
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Summary The Senescence Accelerated Mouse-Prone 8 (SAMP8) is a naturally occuring mouse line that displays a phenotype of accelerated aging. While maintaining an inbred AKR/J line in the early 1970's, ...
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 ...
Brain Shuttle Sneaks Gantenerumab Past the Blood-Brain Barrier Initially, gantenerumab was nearly scuttled when low doses failed to budge endpoints in the Phase 3 Scarlet RoAD and Marguerite RoAD ...
Sasner sat down with Alzforum to go over what models are available now, which ones are coming, and how they could be used. The new mouse lines are the product of two different initiatives: NIA’s Model ...
This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...
Over the last 40 years, age-adjusted dementia prevalence in the U.S. has dropped by two-thirds. This predicts a 25 percent rise in total dementia cases by 2050, due to population aging. The findings ...
Time to rewrite the brain anatomy textbook? In addition to the outermost dura, middle arachnoid, and innermost pia membranes surrounding the brain, researchers led by Kjeld Møllgård, University of ...
What do Alzheimer’s researchers think? They still have many questions about aducanumab. Most believe that the antibody slows progression of the underlying amyloid pathology. But they doubt whether ...