Study sheds light on how tau aggregates promote Alzheimer’s disease
Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you ll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau.
Such conditions, collectively known as tauopathies strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimer s alone affecting six million people in the United States.
But more than a century after German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer discovered tau tangles, scientists still have much to learn about them.
A University of Colorado Boulder study, published this week in the journal
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Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you ll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau.
Such conditions, collectively known as tauopathies strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimer s alone affecting six million people in the United States.
But more than a century after German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer discovered tau tangles, scientists still have much to learn about them.
A University of Colorado Boulder study, published this week in the journal
Neuron, shows for the first time that tau aggregates gobble up RNA, or ribonucleic acid, inside cells and interfere with an integral mechanism called splicing, by which cells ultimately produce needed proteins.
120 Organizations Already RSVPed for our Northern California Conference Matt Beuschlein | Apr 14, 2021
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We are looking forward to seeing a few hundred of our best friends in Northern California health care and health policy next week at the 2021 Northern California State of Reform Health Policy Conference!
We get about half of our registration in the last week or so. And, since we’re now in that window and since our registration is starting to run up, we wanted to share with you the list of organizations who will be joining our event next week. It’s an impressive list and one that we’re honored to host and convene on April 22nd!
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This year’s event is co-sponsored by CU Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
After being postponed in 2020 amid COVID-19, ScienceWriters2021 is on track for Oct. 8-11, 2021, at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
The annual conference is the nation’s premier science communications gathering and is organized by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) and the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) in coordination with a different research institution each year. This year, the event is co-sponsored by CU Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
The 2021 conference is expected to attract at least 300 in-person attendees and as many as 2,000 virtual attendees for several days of meetings, workshops, talks and tours.