Alzheimer's disease

A new study suggests that it is possible to design drugs that can target a type of shape-shifting protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease, which was...

Researchers have found a way to design an antibody that can identify the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells – a potential advance in...

Wren Therapeutics secures £18 million in funding to tackle protein misfolding diseases.

Researchers have developed a new way to target the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers have shown how cholesterol – a molecule normally linked with cardiovascular diseases – may also play an important role in the onset and...

Recent advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have designed antibodies that target the protein deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease...

Why do we age when we get older? Epigenetics may hold the answer – but could it one day help us turn back the clock? Professor Wolf Reik from the...