Endolysosome leakiness allows tau to build up in cells.

“Short sleeper” mice engineered to have the same sequence in the gene sleep less but show the same performance on memory tests as animals that sleep a normal amount.

A new analysis finds that black scientists tend to propose projects that have lower rates of funding from the National Institutes of Health than other fields.

Three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from cancer patients’ own tumors can predict responses to the drug irinotecan.

In brain samples from people with Alzheimer’s disease, the protein aggregates more strongly bound proteins involved in processing RNA, the same study finds.

The authors have requested a retraction of a paper that found people with the CCR5 Δ32 variant are more likely to die sooner.

Three studies show that tumor cells can behave like neurons.

Researchers find strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae that produce high levels of alcohol in 60 percent of patients with the condition.

The widely expected move comes months after the companies scrapped trials of another Alzheimer’s drug.