Amyl Therapeutics, headquartered in Liège, Belgium, is developing a novel anti-amyloid protein therapeutic that binds to a common structural feature of amyloids, the cross-β amyloid fold ...

Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, ...

Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide, a 40-42 amino acid protein cleaved from the amyloid ... out that this mouse vaccine system can now be used to test whether depletion of amyloid plaques is accompanied ...

But costly, time-consuming positron emission tomography (Pet) brain scans are currently the only way to test for this. Science Photo Library The protein amyloid beta can accumulate in the brain in ...

Scientists from Boston University and other institutions have identified a blood biomarker that could help detect the earliest signs of dementia, even before any symptoms appear. This breakthrough ...

The Alzheimer’s Association reports that the disease begins as many as two decades before symptoms develop. Physically, the ...

It turns out that a protein we’ve been fighting against might actually be our brain’s best friend. For years, doctors blamed amyloid beta buildup in the brain for causing Alzheimer’s disease.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Prof Hardy said: “Using a blood test or blood tests and genetics ... his work discovering mutations in the amyloid protein gene that cause Alzheimer ...