Researchers at McMaster University, Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long ...

Aβ42 is a complex protein made up of 42 amino acids, giving it its name. Sometimes these proteins can harden and clump together to form the brain tissue plaques that have long been associated ...

What exactly is Alzheimer’s disease, and how common is it? A: Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia. It is caused in part by the accumulation of abnormally folded ...

An illustration depicts cells in an Alzheimer’s-affected brain, with abnormal levels of beta amyloid protein clumping together to form plaques that collect between neurons and disrupt cell function.

Researchers at McMaster University, Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with ...

A new study has revealed that newborn babies and Alzheimer’s patients both have elevated levels of the same protein, p-tau217 ...

HealthDay News — A low-fiber diet with high red-meat content is associated with high-risk plaque features, according to a study published online June 16 in Cardiovascular Research.

For a long time, many researchers believed that a protein called amyloid-beta was the main cause. This protein builds up in ...