Helen & Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute

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An Unusual Mechanism of Pathogenic Aggregation of Cysteine String Protein-α (CSPα)

A new discovery published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (Naseri NN et al. Nat Struct & Mol Biol 27(2):192-201; 2020) clarifies the mechanism behind a neurodegenerative lysosomal...

Microglial microRNAs mediate sex-specific responses to tau pathology

A new discovery published in Nature Neuroscience showed that male and female microglia expressed different sets of microRNAs at baseline and in response to tau pathology. Led by graduate student Lay...

Seventh Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium to be held on October 04, 2019

The Seventh Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium is scheduled on Friday, October 4th, 2019 from 8:30AM - 12:00 PM at the Belfer Research Building, Starr-Greenberg Conference...