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Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Diagnostic Continues to Advance

Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine have reported the ongoing development of a blood test for early Alzheimer’s’ disease diagnostic. The preliminary data was presented during the recent Osteopathic Medical Conference & Exposition (OMED 15) in Orlando, Florida. The innovative blood test relies on the detection of autoantibodies as blood biomarkers of…

Fungal Infection as a Risk Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study reports the finding of fungal cells and hyphae in tissue from different regions of the central nervous system (CNS) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. The research article, entitled “Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease”, was published in Scientific Reports. AD…

Axovant Screens First Patients in Phase 3 MINDSET Study on RVT-101 for Alzheimer’s Disease

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Axovant Sciences Ltd., recently announced it has screened the first batch of patients for MINDSET, an international Phase III clinical trial exploring RVT-101 as a candidate treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The company also reported the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant MINDSET a Special Protocol Assessment…

Brain Implant Could Help People With Memory Loss

Researchers at University of Southern California at Los Angeles (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina have developed a brain prosthesis designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other forms of dementia form new…

miRNAs in Exosomes May Serve as Basis for New Alzheimer Diagnostic Tests

As a disease that is best detected and treated early after onset, Alzheimer disease is characterized by a variety of aberrantly regulated proteins and molecules, which once identified can be used as biomarkers for disease and integrated into Alzheimer’s diagnostic tests. New research at the University of Illinois at Chicago by co-authors Dr.