New research shows that glial cells play an important role in producing amyloid beta, a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The study, undertaken by scientists at the Max Planck Institute, ...

Amyloid plaques are misfolded proteins aggregates between neurons, Alzheimer's disease illustration. [Artur Plawgo/Getty Images] Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

The active genes in the body have to be copied, or transcribed into RNA molecules, which are then processed in a variety of ways before being translated into proteins. One processing mechanism ...

Glial cells in the brain also produce amyloid beta. Not only neurons build the protein amyloid beta (blue), which clumps together and forms harmful plaques in Alzheimer’s disease: Special glial cells ...

After studying 140,000 versions of the Aβ42 peptide, scientists identified some of the earliest molecular interactions that drive the formation of harmful amyloid protein aggregates found in Alzheimer ...

A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that immune cells called microglia can actively promote the formation of plaques in Alzheimer's disease, challenging the long-standing view ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers investigated the contributions of oligodendrocytes (OLs) and neurons to amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque burden in Alzheimer's disease ...