Using slices of mouse brain tissue kept alive in a lab dish, scientists have identified the earliest molecular changes leading…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Two studies from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, reveal new insights into amyloid-β — the plaque-forming…
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging recently demonstrated that memory loss for patients with early Alzheimer’s disease…
Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) at the University of Southern California, and Janssen Research & Development will collaborate…
Recent research published in The Lancet Neurology demonstrates that blood vessel changes such as arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis…
Recent hopeful statements that blood levels of progranulin might be a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia…
Alzheimer’s disease research and drug development has for the last several decades focused feircly on the elimination of amyloid-β — the…
A somewhat hectic schedule might protect a person from cognitive decline, a study from the University of Texas at Dallas reported. Busy people…
Brazilian researchers have developed a nanoscale biosensor that can detect molecules linked to Alzheimer’s, as well as other neurodegenerative diseases,…
Loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells puts men at the same risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease as individuals…