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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine identify a key step in the development of harmful tau tangles, offering a potential target for preventing brain damage in diseases like Alzheimer's. The study highlights the role of long noncoding RNAs, particularly SNHG8, in stress granule formation and tau aggregation, opening new avenues for treatment.

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have identified how tau protein -- part of the brain's infrastructure -- gets knotted up into tangles and turns toxic in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain diseases.Under normal circumstances, ...

In a discovery that could potentially lead to new approaches to treating a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, researchers have figured out the connection between tau mutations and stress granules.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a key step in the development of destructive tau tangles in the brain. The discovery could lead to new approaches to treating a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Scientists have identified a handful of gene mutations that cause or contribute to the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau.