September 21, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 21, 2018
The Atlantic, Wiping Out the Brain’s Retired Cells Prevents a Hallmark of Alzheimer’s by Ed Yong — In 2016, Darren Baker and Jan van Deursen from the Mayo Clinic announced that they had discovered a new way to prolong the life of mice: They cleansed the rodents of retired cells. Over time, the cells of […]
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June 18, 2012
New Discoveries: Alzheimer’s Disease
With the help of mice, researchers have now found that mitochondria in the brain are dysfunctional early on in Alzheimer’s disease, even before memory loss. The team examined mitochondria in three mouse models, each using a different gene shown to cause familial, or early-onset, Alzheimer’s disease…”One of the most significant findings of this study is […]