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Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have developed an innovative human neuron model that robustly simulates the spread of tau protein aggregates in the brain – a process that drives cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.
<p>While newly approved drugs for Alzheimer’s show some promise for slowing the memory-robbing disease, the current treatments fall far short of being effective at regaining memory. What is needed are more treatment options targeted to restore memory, said <a href="https://www.buckinstitute.org/lab/tracy-lab/">Buck Assistant Professor Tara Tracy, PhD</a>, the senior author of a study that proposes an alternate strategy for reversing the memory problems that accompany Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.</p>
For a new generation of DFW philanthropists and investors, social impact is as important as financial returns. Leaders like Jeremy Smith, Lindsay Billingsley, and Mallory Muse, are paving the way.
/PRNewswire/ -- Cure Alzheimer's Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to funding the most promising research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimer's disease, is pleased...
/PRNewswire/ -- The Rainwater Charitable Foundation, one of the largest independent funders of neurodegenerative disease research, today announced this year's...