A study shows that different fibril formations in the brains of deceased patients seem to correlate with various Alzheimer’s disease subtypes. 

Susan Lindquist of MIT and the Whitehead Institute broke scientific ground on prions and heat shock proteins.

Dale Schenk, who worked to develop a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease, has passed away at age 59.

Environmental magnetite in the human brain; prion structure takes shape; watching E. coli evolve in real time; learning from others’ behavior 

For the first time, researchers visualize histone deacetylase in the brains of healthy volunteers.

Targeting tau antibodies does not require effector function, researchers report.

Alzheimer’s disease–associated amyloid-β peptides trap microbes in the brains of mice and in the guts of nematodes, a study shows. 

Researchers use optogenetics to induce recall in an Alzheimer’s mouse model, suggesting the disease may not destroy memories permanently.

Examining the brains of seven patients who died of the prion disease called Creutzfeldt–Jakob, researchers find signs of Alzheimer’s pathology. 

Key Alzheimer’s disease–related protein may be a transcriptional regulator.