Science news articles about 'neurodegenerative disease'

... therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow significantly the rate of neurologic decline in ...

... simple genetic model, in this case the fruit fly, to the enormous problem of human neurodegenerative disease,” Bonini said. “By recreating in the fly various human diseases, we have found that, while ...

... lead to production of toxic, misfolded proteins, and ultimately, to a better understanding of neurodegenerative disease. "These genes may produce proteins that look innocuous but nevertheless cause a ...

... at the University of Michigan shows. The same deficit also may be involved in aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, says lead author Haoxing Xu, an assistant ...

... important, says Dr. Farrer. Disruptions in this railroad system have been seen in many neurodegenerative diseases, but these problems have been generally regarded as byproducts of the disorder rather ...

... better understand the processes behind the formation of the protein aggregates that are common to most neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, it will provide new opportunities to target the earliest ...

... , founding director of the MCG Alzheimer's Research Center. "We realize that with neurodegenerative diseases there will not be one magic bullet," Dr. Buccafusco says. "Developing new therapeutics ...

Combining the benefits of multiple drugs in a single pill may hold the key to treating neurodegenerative diseases, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Drugs that protect neurones, for example, ...

... normal laboratory mice into super-jocks holds great promise in developing new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), say researchers ...

... network mapping approaches yield robust, convergent, anatomically predictable networks, and that specific neurodegenerative diseases target these patterned brain systems," says Dr. Seeley. "Future ...

... play a role in neuron protection, making it a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Eventually, the Singapore scientists hope to conduct drug ...

... the progression of Parkinson’s disease in men. Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) examined data from an ...

... candidate for us because it is involved in many functions that are affected by Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases,” said Dr. Mucke. “We were not sure, though, whether it contributed ...

... . Finding a way to dismantle misfolded proteins has implications for new treatments for a host of neurodegenerative diseases. Abnormal accumulation of amyloid fibers and other misfolded forms in the ...

... bodes well for developing transgenic nonhuman primate models of other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. "The development of all such models is invaluable for understanding disease ...