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Scientific American

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December 5, 2025

RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake Read more

Scientific American

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February 19, 2026

Tests that could reveal when Alzheimer’s disease will emerge, while promising, are not ready for use in otherwise healthy people, scientists say Read more

EurekAlert!

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January 3, 2012

The first changes in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease can be observed as much as ten years in advance – ten years before the person in question has become so ill that he or she can be diagnosed with the disease. This is what a new study from Lund University in Sweden has found. Read more

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March 21, 2012

Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according to researchers who report the finding in the March 22 edition of the journal Neuron. Read more

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February 18, 2012

Alzheimer's disease drugs now being tested in clinical trials may have potentially adverse side effects. A study with mice suggests the drugs could act like a bad electrician, causing neurons to be miswired and interfering with their ability to send messages to the brain. Ironically, they could impair memory. The findings will be presented Saturday, Feb. 18, at the 2012 AAAS annual meeting. Read more

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May 16, 2012

ApoE4, a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease triggers a cascade of signaling that ultimately results in leaky blood vessels in the brain, allowing toxic substances to pour into brain tissue in large amounts, scientists report in the journal Nature. Read more

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April 19, 2012

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that brain plaques in mice are associated with disruption of the ability of brain regions to network with each other. This decline parallels earlier results from human studies, suggesting that what scientists learn about Alzheimer's effects on brain networks in the mice will likely be transferable to human disease research. Read more

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April 10, 2012

A new study led by researchers at the University of South Florida found that a fragment of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) -- known as sAPP-alpha and associated with Alzheimer's disease -- appears to regulate its own production. The finding may lead to ways to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease by controlling the regulation of APP. Read more

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May 31, 2012

The molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease -- and the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol -- could lead to new therapeutics for the disease, Vanderbilt University investigators report in the June 1 issue of the journal Science. Read more

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March 19, 2012

Bioethicist and M.D., Robert Klitzman, confronts fate and family secrets in the age of genetic testing in "Am I My Genes?" Read more