Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD ATTR-CM is an acronym for the medical condition called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. There are two causes of ATTR-CM, an inherited gene mutation and ...

New research shows that signs of Alzheimer’s disease can already be detected in the blood of people as young as their 40s.

A Finnish population study shows that signs related to Alzheimer's disease may already be found in the brain in middle age.

SCIENTISTS have spent decades trying to understand what causes dementia. Is it alcohol? Obesity? Or are some of us simply ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, are developing a panel of ...

Researchers in Finland found Alzheimer’s-related blood biomarkers in adults as young as 41, decades before symptoms appear.

Of the 258 participants, 195 were cognitively asymptomatic, 34 had mild cognitive impairment, 23 had dementia, and six had an ...

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

A Finnish population study shows that signs related to Alzheimer's disease may already be found in the brain in middle age.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the microbes that have been with us for millennia — the so-called microbiome, ...

Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through ...

Intellia Therapeutics NTLA has put up a stellar performance in the past month. Shares of the company have rallied 29.8% compared with the industry’s rise of 0.4%. The stock has also outperformed the ...