As amyloid immunotherapy enters clinical care in more countries, providers the world over are eager for more information on how well it works, and especially how safe it is. To collect such data in ...
Even as two amyloid immunotherapies are in clinical use, scientists still have many questions about how these antibodies affect the brain. Neuropathology and biomarker data from treated patients are ...
The current Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic antibodies carry a sizable risk of ARIA, especially for APOE4 carriers. Researchers believe the future of amyloid immunotherapies lies in targeted brain ...
Talk about a closely watched study. Conference after conference, Roche scientists running the ongoing Brain Shuttle AD trial of trontinemab are dispensing morsels of news from sequential interim ...
Signaling through the TREM2 receptor fuels an ever-growing list of known microglial functions in the brain, and gene variants that hobble TREM2 signaling beckon Alzheimer’s disease. Ergo, activating ...
As the baby boom generation reaches its hopefully golden years, scientists have been projecting a doubling of dementia cases in the U.S. by 2050, alarming health care agencies, the public, and health ...
Missense mutations that derail SORL1 trafficking cause AD. Other variants shift AD risk in East Asians and Europeans. SORL1 dysfunction messes with endosomes in neurons, and with lysosomes in ...
This letter was prompted by your recent perspective paper and the responses it provoked in an Alzforum discussion. Generally, my comments are offered with the intellectual humility required when ...
The fifth time may be the charm for antibodies targeting tau. At the 16th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference, held October 29 to November 1 in Madrid, Brussels-based UCB Pharma ...
Fewer than 1 percent of amyloid-targeted monoclonal antibodies like lecanemab and donanemab reach their targets in the brain. The excess doses required to make up for this problem raise the risk of ...
A top researcher’s fall from grace sends shock waves through the scientific community. Such is the case with neuropathologist Eliezer Masliah, who stands accused of image falsification spanning 26 ...
Among the hundreds of studies presented at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 27 to August 1 in Philadelphia, one of the few that made a splash in the news was not ...