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The MCI-Park mice are compound mutant (Ndufs2fl/fl; DAT IREScre/+) animals in which Ndufs2, a gene encoding a core subunit of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, is selectively inactivated in ...
This interactive resource organizes decades of data on biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. Biomarker measurements from the cerebrospinal fluid and blood are curated from the primary literature and ...
When Alois Alzheimer described the case of Auguste D. to an audience of fellow psychiatrists in Tuebingen, Germany, in 1906, what set her case apart was the fact that her dementia appeared before she ...
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Score another one for amyloid immunotherapy. The anti-pyroglutamated amyloid antibody donanemab has posted positive top-line results in the Phase 3 Trailblazer-Alz2 study, according to an Eli Lilly ...
Eisai and Biogen yesterday announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 Clarity trial of their anti-amyloid antibody lecanemab. The drug slowed decline on the primary endpoint, CDR-SB, by 27 ...
The top-line results last September from Eisai’s Phase 3 trial of the anti-amyloid antibody lecanemab galvanized the field, but scientists said they needed to see the data before passing judgement.
Merck dropped a Valentine’s Day downer announcing they will stop the EPOCH trial of verubecestat in mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. A prespecified interim analysis by an external data-monitoring ...
The slight slowing of cognitive decline achieved by Leqembi and perhaps by Aduhelm has revived debate around how much change is needed to be “clinically meaningful.” Two recent papers—one a report ...
Part 1 of 2. Click here for Part 2. As Alzheimer’s clinicians across the U.S. started offering a disease-modifying treatment to their patients, uptake at first was slow but is now speeding up. Six ...
This database is a repository of normal genetic variability, designed to be a tool for researchers who study neurodegenerative disease. It contains whole-exome sequencing results from nearly 500 ...
In a watershed moment for the field, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first Alzheimer’s treatment that tackles the underlying disease pathology. Biogen and Eisai’s anti-amyloid ...