Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

A breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's was made by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, where a test was ...

I’m really annoyed, on behalf of the journalist Charles Piller, about the release date of his book “ Doctored: Fraud, ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research points to a ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its misfolded pathological forms ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer's disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau. This is the ...

In a bid to revolutionize Alzheimer’s detection, scientists have examined the brain’s neurovascular ... while there's no doubt that the development of plaques caused by amyloid proteins ...

Readers worry that fraud may tarnish the field and slow the race for a cure. Also: Charles Blow’s farewell; treatment for ...

Scientists led by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Italy, in collaboration with the ESRF, the European Synchrotron in ...

A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers cellular inflammation and aging and is linked to Alzheimer's disease, ...

By focusing on the specific processes that lead to brain cell death in Alzheimer’s disease, researchers have been able to develop a more targeted and potentially more effective approach to ...

Scientists have discovered a potential new drug that could help people with Alzheimer’s disease by improving memory and ...