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A recent communication from the University of Texas at Arlington reported that computer scientists led by Professor Heng Huang won a $2 million grant funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the possibility of predicting whether a person is predisposed to develop Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing complex genomics data.

In a recent paper published in the Nature Reviews in Neurology journal, a team of US researchers discussed the current challenges, opportunities and emerging evaluation methods in preclinical Alzheimer disease treatments, describing a convergent initiative to improve Alzheimer disease prevention research coined as Collaboration…

In a recent study entitled “A Hot-Segment-Based Approach for the Design of Cross-Amyloid Interaction Surface Mimics as Inhibitors of Amyloid Self-Assembly”  and published in Angewandte Chemie, a team of scientists…

Results from a recent study conducted by scientists at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Centro Médico Cozumel Universities of Montana, Valle de México, Boise State and North Carolina, revealed that air pollution has a harmful effect on hippocampal metabolites as early neurodegeneration markers among young urbanites…

According to a new analysis conducted by Alzheimer’s Research UK one in three people born in 2015 will develop Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) during their lifetime. The results suggest an alarming crisis in national health as the population in the United Kingdom ages, and highlights the demand for global efforts to develop new successful…

In a newly published paper in Genes & Development journal entitled “Myxococcus CsgA, Drosophila Sniffer, and human HSD10 are cardiolipin phospholipases“, researchers from University of Georgia suggest that a soil bacterium protein named HSD10 reduces oxidative stress, stimulates repair of nerve cells and contributes to slow down…

Results from a recent study showed that women are more likely to not only be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but to also be more heavily burdened by the associated economic costs, compared to men.  The study, entitled, “Gender Differences: A Lifetime Analysis of the Economic Burden of…

A recent study published this week in Nature has revealed that the “seeds” of Alzheimer’s disease and related brain disorders may be transmitted by direct tissue transplantation. The results from the study entitled “Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy”, coupled with…

Results from the largest nationwide study investigating long-term high-dose resveratrol in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) showed that a specific a biomarker that declines with disease progression was stabilized in patients who received resveratrol in its purified form. The results, published online in Neurology,…

In a new study entitled “Human umbilical cord blood-derived monocytes improve cognitive deficits and reduce ß-amyloid pathology in PSAPP mice” an international team of scientists showed that infusion of human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBCs) into a mice model of Alzheimer’s disease improves animals’ cognitive performance by clearing amyloid-beta (Aβ)…