Including nearly 20,000 participants, the largest study on amyloid prevalence to date estimates that a third of cognitively normal people older than 70 have amyloid building up in their brains.

Early brain amyloid accumulation was found in otherwise healthy young men exposed to repetitive subconcussive blast injuries, a pilot study showed. Discriminant analysis based on regional amyloid PET ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy transthyretin moves hormones through blood and spinal fluid, misfolded ...

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have revealed that amyloid fibrils formed by necroptosis mediators, RIPK1 and RIPK3, don't just form within ...

A new expert consensus decision pathway published by the American College of Cardiology highlights the importance of recognizing and diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis at an early stage to allow the most ...

Alzheimer’s disease is by far the most common cause of dementia, a progressive decline in brain function most common among the elderly. In America more than 6m people live with the disease, at a cost ...

Just as Eisai notches wins in its campaign for lecanemab approval around the world—last month in the European Union, this week in Mexico—a dozen research and clinical leaders called on the U.S. FDA ...

Ledvina HE, Sayegh R, Carale RO, Burroughs AM, Macklin AR, Azadeh AL, Borja Najera LD, Aravind L, Whiteley AT. Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria. Nature. 2025 ...