The detection of phospho-tau217 levels in blood is simple and can be performed in any clinical laboratory. This could help, according to Dr. Pablo Villoslada, head of the Neurology Department at ...

Human surfactant protein A (SP-A) is a C-type lectin expressed in the lung ... Real-time qPCR (RT-qPCR) was performed using the AB StepOnePlus Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) ...

For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the US, chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed. The consequences of advanced chronic ...

State Key Laboratory of Chemo and Biosensing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P ...

When it comes to the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests that the nose knows. Mass General Brigham neurology researchers have created a smell test that shows promise as ...

The network supports research on various aspects of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family of diseases, which includes BSE (a.k.a. mad cow disease) in cattle, scrapie in sheep, chronic ...

In a study published in Neuron, researchers report 'seeding' this accumulation through fragments of the culprit protein created in the lab. The findings provide further evidence for a prion-like ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital have now shown that elevated levels of the protein interleukin-26 (IL-26) in the nose of smokers with and without COPD can ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed. The consequences ...