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HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Lauren Gravitz |
Live Long and Prosper Mix amyloid plaques with longevity and you get mice that not only live longer, but healthier too.   |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
pH prompts protein structure US researchers studying the naturally-occurring amyloid protein Pmel17 have discovered that pH plays an important role in its structure, helping the body control its aggregation. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2009
Hayley Birch |
New technique probes Alzheimer's aggregates US and UK researchers have used a new technique to identify what they think could be the primary toxic species in the development of Alzheimer's disease |
Science News
June 9, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Super-Size Mice--Fast Food Hurts Rodents When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me. |
Reason
May 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Briefly Noted: Foie Fight Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars, inadvertently kicked off a national debate about the much-derided delicacy with a 2006 story for the Chicago Tribune about an inter-chef squabble. |
Science News
October 6, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Food for Thought: Diminishing Obesity's Risks Mouse data suggest that, properly managed, obesity can be benign. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Halleh B. Balch |
Like a Chinese Finger Trap In neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, the needle-like fibers that accumulate in the brain are not the real damage-doers. The culprits are intermediate protein structures, called small amyloid oligomers, made of a few proteins that misfold and aggregate. |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2009
Phil Taylor |
New drug turns Alzheimer's theory on its head Researchers have been left puzzled by data showing that the antihistamine dimebolin, a drug with promising activity in improving Alzheimer's symptoms, actually seems to increase levels of the toxic protein beta amyloid. |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Rebecca Koffman |
Recipe: Tips for serving foie gras entier The perfect way to prepare the unctuous liver of a perfectly groomed goose. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Amyloid Protein Seen to Zip Together Amyloid proteins' long, complicated structure makes them tricky to study, but U.S. researchers have found that they share a common feature that could provide a drug target for an array of incurable conditions. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2009
Phil Taylor |
Tracing amyloid in Alzheimer's A diagnostic compound that allows researchers to look into the brains of Alzheimer's patients will be used for the first time to gauge the effects of an experimental therapy for the disease. |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2011
Russell Johnson |
Tracking the early stages of Alzheimer's disease UK researchers can track the early steps of formation of peptide clumps linked to Alzheimer's disease using the peptide's fluorescent ability. This could help design effective therapies for the disease at an early stage. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2008
Patrick Clinton |
Salute to the Murines What can we say about modern medicine? The answer, of course, is that it's brilliant at curing the ailments of mice. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2010
Sarah Houlton |
Microbes implicated in Alzheimer's Microbes such as Candida albicans may be triggering the immune system to release beta amyloid |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Rebecca Koffman |
Intimate gourmet In a medieval French village, my husband and I learned that to produce truly fine foie gras, one must embrace the goose -- and massage and fondle it too. |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2006
Michael Gross |
Alzheimer's Alphabet Alzheimer's researchers are now closer to understanding the natural function of one of the two enzymes that cut A out of APP, and have recreated the process by which fibril formation begins in vivo. |
Reason
February 2004
Neil Steinberg |
A Week of Eating Dangerously Searching for detente between man and beast in the animal rights debate |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2012
Michael Parkin |
New supramolecular Alzheimer's drugs Supramolecular chemistry could provide a new avenue in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, say scientists in China. |
Chemistry World
April 2009
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Unwinding protein fibrils could give a glimpse of how peptides survived on early Earth |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2011
Carl Saxton |
Targeting memory loss A new treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been developed by Canadian and US scientists. |
Chemistry World
November 2006
Philip Ball |
Opinion: The Crucible Here are some of the latest instalments in the ongoing story of how protein misfolding causes neurodegenerative diseases -- a story that is not solely about developing clinical treatments or preventative medicines, but which goes to the heart of proteins' role as the stuff of life. |
Prepared Foods
October 1, 2006 |
On the National Menu Blood orange quickly gaining momentum across U.S. restaurant menus... Mexican corn truffle a delicacy or a disease?... |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Lopatto & Matsuyama |
The Race for Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's GE, Bayer, and Avid are vying to be first to market an early test for Alzheimer's. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2005
Charly Travers |
Alzheimer's Drug on the Horizon? Myriad Genetics' innovative technology creates an investment opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2011
Brian Orelli |
High Stakes at Tomorrow's FDA Panel Meeting It's more than just Eli Lilly on the line. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Forget About This Drug Saving the Company Lilly's Alzheimer's drug fails hard. |
Chemistry World
March 16, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Short peptides self-assemble into a catalyst Researchers in the US have created catalysts from peptide chains that are only seven amino acids long. |
