Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer's disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), ...

Scientists have been trying to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer's disease for many years, and while we know that pathologies like tau tangles and amyloid plaques are related to the ...

With no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, doctors have repeatedly stressed the importance of knowing your personal risk factors and doing everything you can to protect your brain as you age. In that sense ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...