A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a mouse model of ...

Microglia have been revealed to first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit ...

While there's no cure yet for Alzheimer's, researchers are finally making more progress in better understanding the disease ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

University of Illinois researchers developed SPLICER, a gene editing tool enhancing exon skipping. Targeting ...

A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta ... model of Alzheimer's disease ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 30-50% of brains donated to research as “controls” or healthy end up having ...

The chronic neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD ... A central symptom of AD is accumulating plaques containing β-amyloid causing synaptic failure, leading to neuronal death.