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Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

Researchers have discovered that newborns have high levels of the tau protein, which is elevated in older people with Alzheimer’s disease, but that it causes them no harm | The discovery opens the door to developing new ways of treating or preventing the neurodegenerative condition.

Breakthrough brain sugar discovery turns the tables on Alzheimer's disease | Sugar stores in the brain were previously thought to be unimportant

Doctors find Parkinson's markers by looking inside ears | Analysis of ear wax to detect Parkinson's Disease would be a cheap, non-invasive way to detect the condition in its early stages

Pancreatic cancer vaccine eradicates trace of disease in early trials

FDA Clears First Blood Test To Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

The FDA clears the first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate

AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate

Empty Calories of AI: A Cure for Loneliness Worse Than the Disease?

Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson's disease

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients

Parkinson's treatment closer as problematic protein imaged for first time | Known as PINK1, the protein has been linked to the disease for decades but its structure and how to switch it back on have remained elusive – until now.

Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms

Faster breathing patterns linked to Alzheimer's disease

Genetically engineered mosquitoes with "toxic" semen could kill females and curb spread of disease, researchers say

"Functional cure" for diabetes restores insulin production with stem cells | A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells.

Parkinson's disease may one day be treated with a shot of magnetic discs

'Breakthrough' dementia drug looks to stop disease in its tracks

Bite of hope: Malaria vaccine delivered by gene-edited mosquito kills infection by 89% | This technique gave the immune system a powerful boost, shielding people from the disease.