Butovsky believes xenon has potential as an AD treatment. A Phase 1 clinical trial of xenon at BWH is recruiting healthy elderly volunteers to test safety and effects on immune cells. “I hope this ...

Lactylation, a recently identified post-translational modification, has emerged as important for immune regulation, tissue repair, cancer cell metabolism, and now, potentially, Alzheimer’s disease. In ...

Atlas Overview. A survey of regulatory RNA used two cohorts (A), six brain regions (B), and four AD traits (D) to examine four types of RNA (C), turning up more than 25,000 differences between AD and ...

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 ...

Some researchers believe the brain makes Aβ to help fight bacterial and fungal invaders. Now comes evidence that p-tau may take on a similar role against viruses. In the January 2 Cell Reports, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to understand why many animals live longer, healthier lives when they have less to eat. Now, work led by Sheng-Cai Lin, Chen-Song Zhang, and Xianming ...

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Some people’s brains age faster than average, some slower. Scientists quantify this “brain age gap” by subtracting a person’s chronological age from their brain’s biological age. Because aging brains ...