by Texas A&M University Dmitry Kurouski, Ph.D., standing, and research assistant Kiryl Zhaliazka, conducted a study linking cholesterol to Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Cholesterol tremendously increases the toxicity of a peptide implicated in Alzheimer’s progression, according to research by scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life...
A now-seminal study published in 2006 provided evidence that the toxic accumulation of a protein called beta-amyloid in the brain was tied to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, an assistant professor from Vanderbilt University suggested that some of the images in this study were manipulated by the authors. What does all of this mean?...
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER IMAGE: DR. O’BRYANT ANNOUNCED THE AVAILABILITY OF THE RESEARCH DATA IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED JUNE 21 IN ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA: DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT & DISEASE MONITORING, A NATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION. CREDIT: HSC A growing trove of data to help scientists understand the biology of Alzheimer’s...
