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In a recent study entitled “Aberrant Lipid Metabolism in the Forebrain Niche Suppresses Adult Neural Stem Cell Proliferation in an Animal Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team of Canadian researchers led by Dr. Karl J. L. Fernandes found that fat droplets…

NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine scientists presented several new findings at the 2015 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Washington, D.C., July 18-23-2015. This is the largest conference focusing on Alzheimer’s disease, and brings together researchers and clinicians who focus on understanding the cause, treatment and prevention of…

Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have found microglia containing iron in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a condition not verified in the brains of healthy people. The iron-containing cells appeared in the hippocampus, a critical area for memory that also degenerates in AD. The work appeared in the…

A recent meeting convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) could dramatically alter how researchers study Alzheimer’s disease (AD).  The NIH issued new recommendations, based on the recent Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit, which could speed up work leading to the development of treatments for AD. During the summit, more…

Voyko Kavcic, Ph.D., a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University received a grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The grant consists of $420,000 over two years…

A collaboration between scientists from Dublin’s Trinity College (Ireland) and the University of Queensland (Australia) identified a compound able to inhibit an inflammatory process common to many diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. The study entitled “A small-molecule inhibitor of the NLRP3 inflammasome for the treatment of inflammatory diseases”…

Many health practitioners recommend a glass of red wine a day to promote health benefits. But what about beer? A recent study published by researchers at Lanzhou University in China explores the possibility that beer may also promote health. The article, titled “Xanthohumol, a Polyphenol Chalcone Present in…

On December 2014, scientific experts in the fields of both cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) met in Chicago to discuss the link between vascular risk factors and dementia in AD. The event was organized by the Alzheimer’s Association, with scientific input from the National Institutes of Health’s National…

Scientists at the University of Illinois have created an exciting new method for examining how proteins change their shape right inside cells, using fluorescent markers and a specialized microscope. They recently published their work in the December 1st issue of the journal Public Library of Science One (PLoS…

Researchers from the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) blocked a sleep-regulating protein, orexin, in mice with a form of Alzheimer’s disease, making them sleep longer and blocking brain symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The research appeared Nov. 24 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.