by Susan Keown | Nov 19, 2023 | ScienceWire
A high-sugar diet impairs the brain cells responsible for removing toxic debris from the brain, Sabrina Richards writes for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The research could provide a link between diet and Alzheimer’s disease and similar neurodegenerative disorders,...
by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
In Pacific NW Magazine, Sandi Doughton (@sandidoughton) features long-running Seattle-area research that is uncovering clues to dementia by tracking local seniors. Doughton introduces us to researchers and participants in the study and highlights some of its key...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Many failed clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease therapies, Charlotte Shubert writes, focused on peptide amyloid-beta, which forms clumps in the brain. Charlotte reports in the Journal Club section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that because...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Spring is here and Genevieve Wanucha, editor of the University of Washington Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Dimensions magazine, has released this season’s issue (pdf). Look for a feature by Genevieve on six practical activities for building brain...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
Think “multidisciplinary” is just a science buzzword? Genevieve Wanucha’s story about a gene linked to Alzheimer’s disease follows a discovery from bioinformatics, to transgenic model organisms, to postmortem human brains. Genevieve is at the...
