Although the precise mechanism isn’t yet known, factors like sex chromosomes and hormones, particularly the protective ...

Cholesterol manufactured in the brain appears to play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, new research indicates. Scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and ...

Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

The active genes in the body have to be copied, or transcribed into RNA molecules, which are then processed in a variety of ways before being translated into proteins. One processing mechanism ...

Details about the discovery of FAM22A appeared January 21 in the journal Nature Communications, in an article titled, “FAM222A encodes a protein which accumulates in plaques in Alzheimer’s disease.” ...

Autophagy, a key cellular auto-cleaning mechanism, mediates the formation of amyloid beta plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. It might be a potential drug target for the treatment of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Human oral microbial biofilm is the plaque that dentists warn us about, and is composed of numerous genetically distinct types of bacteria that live on host surfaces. These biofilms ...