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Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Team to Compete for XPrize Launch of Effort for Early Detection

More 100 neurologists, other scientists and disease advocates are supporting the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough team in its goal of getting “launched” at next month’s XPRIZE summit. Their effort centers on crowdsourcing, attracting a worldwide spectrum of experts and innovators to develop new technologies focused on brain health. These technologies encompass artificial intelligence, biotechnology, precision pharmaceuticals, physics…

First Phase 1 Trial Participant Receives HTL0016878, Heptares’ Therapy for Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s

The first participant in a Phase 1 clinical trial of HTL0016878 as a treatment for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease is receiving the therapy, according to its developer, Heptares Therapeutics. Heptares, a subsidiary of Japan’s Sosei Group Corporation, and Ireland-based Allergan are partnering in the trial under a treatment development and…

Pathway Linking Inflammation to Cellular Processes May Provide Target for Alzheimer’s, Study Suggests

The link between brain inflammation, cell growth and division, and neuronal death could provide a target to treat Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disease, research suggests. The study, “LPS-induced inflammatory response triggers cell cycle reactivation in murine neuronal cells through retinoblastoma proteins induction,” appeared in the journal Cell Cycle. The…