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 ...

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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 ...

At this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 27-31 in Toronto, scientists introduced a plethora of new assays for biomarkers that could improve diagnosis and tracking of ...

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 ...

The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network has been at the vanguard of AD immunotherapy development, launching the first secondary and primary prevention trials, as well as the first study of ...

“We have a positive trial,” announced Laura Baker of Wake Forest University, North Carolina, drawing cheers during her plenary at the 2025 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in ...

Statins do not help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, but another cholesterol-controlling drug just might. Obicetrapib blocks cholesteryl esters being transferred from the “good” high-density lipoproteins ...

With two amyloid immunotherapies on the market in many countries, scientists are eager for information on how durable their clinical effects will be. At this year’s Alzheimer’s Association ...

Computational biology has put the human brain vasculature in its crosshairs. On July 23 in Neuron, scientists led by Andrew Yang, University of California, San Francisco, report a multiomic approach ...

AAV-sTREM2 5xFAD mice were created to study the long-term effects of soluble TREM2 (sTREM2) in the context of amyloidosis. To generate this model, AAV carrying cDNA encoding EGFP- and FLAG-tagged ...