Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease are now so accurate that a positive result, on its own, is reason enough for people who are suspected of having AD to start immunotherapy. So proffered Suzanne ...

Phospho-tau217 has emerged as an excellent marker of the presence of amyloid pathology in the brain, but for markers of neurofibrillary tangles, fragments of tau’s microtubule binding region have a ...

Back in mid-June, Alzforum reported on how the AD research field was being buffeted by cuts in funding to the National Institutes of Health (Jun 2025 news; Jun 2025 news). At the time, scientists felt ...

Summary The Senescence Accelerated Mouse-Prone 8 (SAMP8) is a naturally occuring mouse line that displays a phenotype of accelerated aging. While maintaining an inbred AKR/J line in the early 1970's, ...

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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 ...

Over the last 40 years, age-adjusted dementia prevalence in the U.S. has dropped by two-thirds. This predicts a 25 percent rise in total dementia cases by 2050, due to population aging. The findings ...

In a Phase 2 trial, donanemab completely cleared plaque in two-thirds of participants. Their cognitive decline slowed by a third, meeting the primary endpoint. The treatment appeared to nudge down ...

Biogen’s hopes for a quick regulatory approval of its anti-Aβ antibody aducanumab may be dimming. An advisory panel convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unimpressed by the evidence ...

Scientists from academia, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare analysis firms reached no consensus on a threshold for meaningfulness, but broadly agreed that meaningfulness should be determined ...

Sasner sat down with Alzforum to go over what models are available now, which ones are coming, and how they could be used. The new mouse lines are the product of two different initiatives: NIA’s Model ...