The highly selective border lining the brain’s vasculature is the Achilles’ heel of any large therapeutic molecule aiming for targets in the brain, anti-Aβ antibodies included. Not only do fewer than ...

Talk about a closely watched study. Conference after conference, Roche scientists running the ongoing Brain Shuttle AD trial of trontinemab are dispensing morsels of news from sequential interim ...

Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma markers are now being used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s in memory clinics, but what about using them to stage the disease? That’s the next big step, said Henrik ...

At the 19th AD/PD conference, Alzforum reporters wrote 15 summaries of findings across both diseases. From a step toward finally having an α-synuclein PET tracer to a major focus on Trem2 as a drug ...

As the baby boom generation reaches its hopefully golden years, scientists have been projecting a doubling of dementia cases in the U.S. by 2050, alarming health care agencies, the public, and health ...

Just as Eisai notches wins in its campaign for lecanemab approval around the world—last month in the European Union, this week in Mexico—a dozen research and clinical leaders called on the U.S. FDA ...

Mivelsiran docks APP products in early AD. Phase 2 trial asks: Can it treat CAA? LX1001 gene therapy boosts CSF ApoE2, stabilizes AD biomarkers. Intranasal insulin quells systemic inflammation. These ...

Anti-amyloid antibodies lecanemab and donanemab are in clinical use now, but that does not mean research on them has stopped. At the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference, held October ...

Lecanemab has been in clinical use in the U.S. for nearly two years, and in Japan for not quite a year. How is it going? At the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference, held October 29 ...

Fewer than 1 percent of amyloid-targeted monoclonal antibodies like lecanemab and donanemab reach their targets in the brain. The excess doses required to make up for this problem raise the risk of ...

A top researcher’s fall from grace sends shock waves through the scientific community. Such is the case with neuropathologist Eliezer Masliah, who stands accused of image falsification spanning 26 ...

On Tuesday September 10, Francisco Lopera died of cancer at his home in Medellin, Colombia. He was 73, and only just beginning to see his life’s work come to fruition. In fact, Lopera still had much ...