Please join us at the Pre-Screening Reception: The Genius of Marian at Tribeca East of Eighth Restaurant eastofeighthny.com 254 West 23rd St., New York, NY Reception 5:30 – 6:30 PM Screening 6:45 PM at Clearview Chelsea Theatre, 260 West 23rd St. R.S.V.P. by April 18 Join Cure Alzheimer’s founders and friends and filmmaker Banker White for a ...
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By Charles Glabe, Ph.D. University of California at IrvineProfessor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences. The current treatments for AD target the disease symptoms and to prevent or cure AD, new treatments are needed that target the causes of the disease. Aß oligomers are a leading candidate for causing ...
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If you haven’t checked out Nicholas Wade’s piece in today’s New York Times, you should. The prominent science writer has taken on the traditional method of gene hunting, claiming there may be a new, arguably more successful, way to look for diseases’ genetic roots — the very research strategy conducted ...
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Growing evidence has implicated a critical role for microglia in mediating Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis, making them a promising target for AD therapeutics. Impaired microglial phagocytosis results in accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ), leading to neuroinflammation, which is the primary driver of neurodegeneration. Through an unbiased high-throughput screen of a ...
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 5 million people in the United States. One of the hallmarks of AD is the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain of patients. The amyloid plaque is composed of beta amyloid (Abeta) peptide, which originates from an amyloid ...
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