Removing a protein involved in neuroinflammation is beneficial in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. However, in late disease…
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
Trials of deep brain stimulation for Alzheimer’s disease bring with them unique ethical challenges that need to be addressed because these studies are…
Researchers believe that processes that can be used to control immune reactions toward a virus may also be used to…
Selonterra researchers have discovered that the APOE4 gene impacts Alzheimer’s disease (AD) mechanisms in an entirely different way than…
A group of patients with inherited forms of Alzheimer’s disease was found to have extremely high brain-aluminum levels, leading researchers…
As the disappointment over the failure of solanezumab begins to wane, George Vradenburg, co-founder and chairman of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, seeks…
Genervon Biopharmaceuticals recently shared a previously confidential list of 84 genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease which are modulated…
A change in the shape of a protein, rather than its size, is the driving force in small protein aggregates…
Researchers have used a novel approach to identify changes in painting patterns that could signal an artist is developing Alzheimer’s…
Researchers have discovered that amyloid-beta — the protein that builds in the brain of Alzheimer’s disease patients — has different structures…