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... hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, high amounts of the tau protein, or more accurately tau that has been distorted so that the proteins tangle together. The relationship between amyloid-beta and tau is an ongoing chicken-and-egg debate in the Alzheimer's research field, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2014 - 12:56pm - 0 attachments

... that a polymorphism in the microtubule-associated protein Tau (MAPT) gene was significantly associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 10:06am - 0 attachments

So the other day Julia Galef and I had the pleasure of interviewing mathematical cosmologist Max Tegmark for the Rationally Speaking podcast . The episode will come out in late January, close to the release of Max’s book , presenting his Mat ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 16 2014 - 10:59am - 0 attachments

[note: this blog, as written is insufficient. I will need to provide an action to clarify the nature of the proposal.] The Spoon and the Moon Give a baby a spoon, and the little one is likely to toss it to t ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 23 2013 - 10:26am - 0 attachments

Classical gravity is not good enough.  As a first step, one must think about groups since that is the foundation of the Standard Model of physics. All my failed efforts to think about gravity in new ways were variations on the Maxw ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 11 2013 - 6:24am - 0 attachments

The relationship between the work of science and works of fiction has gone on for a long time. It's time to put a ring on that finger. It's no secret that fiction writers have been pilfering ideas from science for generations. Verne did it. Wells, Asim ...

Article - David Sloan - Nov 14 2013 - 10:53am - 0 attachments

... example the properties of some quarks and of the mu and tau leptons.) You can see the logic of the inference: Premise 1: A number ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 5 2013 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

... including the role of the amyloid (SORL1, CASS4) and tau (CASS4, FERMT2) pathways. Newly discovered genes involved in the immune ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2013 - 1:49pm - 0 attachments

... protein goes wrong, in Alzheimer’s it’s amyloid and tau, in Huntington’s it’s the Huntington protein.  But the errant ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 10 2013 - 2:29am - 0 attachments

... that biomarkers - amyloid-beta (Ab) peptide and Tau protein - in the cerebrospinal fluid ( CSF ) of AD ... amyloid-beta (Ab) peptide ( called Ab plates) and Tau     protein (called  ... AD patients had less Ab peptide and more tau in their CSF than normal individuals, the first suspicion was that this was ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 13 2013 - 3:45am - 0 attachments