How a mutation in microglia elevates Alzheimer’s risk

A rare but potent genetic mutation that alters a protein in the brain’s immune cells, known…

A new wave of treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease, the appalling and baffling degenerative brain illness that plagues many elderly people, may be…

Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…