Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts cells in an Alzheimer’s-affected brain, with abnormal levels of beta amyloid protein clumping together to ...

Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing the clumps and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease to be swept away. After just three drug injections, mice with ...

Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now ...

Families across Georgia are finding new hope in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, thanks to promising treatments being studied at Emory’s Goizueta Brain Health Institute. The treatment involves ...

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Amyloid plaques are misfolded proteins aggregates between neurons, Alzheimer's disease illustration. [Artur Plawgo/Getty Images] Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

Researchers have reversed cognitive decline in mice engineered to mimic Alzheimer’s disease, using nanoparticles that repair ...

Current FDA-approved Alzheimer’s drugs remain controversial, with modest benefits, high cost First time cutting-edge technique spatial transcriptomics was used on human clinical-trial brains with ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves cognitive function ...

The new generation of Alzheimer's disease drugs - the first proven to change the course of the disease - typically extend independent living for patients by 10 months. Called monoclonal antibodies, ...

Reiswig, like many members of his family, carries a mutation in a gene called presenilin-2, which causes his brain to overproduce amyloid plaques. His relatives who carry the mutation begin showing ...

(CNN) — For the first time, scientists say, they have evidence that using a biologic drug to remove sticky beta amyloid plaques from the brains of people destined to develop Alzheimer’s dementia can ...