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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and ...

A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset ...

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