Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

RNA interference in the era of nucleic acid therapeutics

V Jadhav, A Vaishnaw, K Fitzgerald, MA Maier - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Two decades of research on RNA interference (RNAi) have transformed a breakthrough
discovery in biology into a robust platform for a new class of medicines that modulate mRNA …

Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

The neuroimmune axis of Alzheimer's disease

M Jorfi, A Maaser-Hecker, RE Tanzi - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a genetically complex and heterogeneous disorder with
multifaceted neuropathological features, including β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary …

The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

SJ Andrews, AE Renton, B Fulton-Howard… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative
disorder and the most common form of dementia. AD is highly heritable, with heritability …

The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

KP Kepp, NK Robakis, PF Høilund-Carlsen, SL Sensi… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Results from recent clinical trials of antibodies that target amyloid-β (Aβ) for Alzheimer's
disease have created excitement and have been heralded as corroboration of the amyloid …

The amyloid hypothesis in Alzheimer disease: new insights from new therapeutics

E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Many drugs that target amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease (AD) have failed to demonstrate
clinical efficacy. However, four anti-Aβ antibodies have been shown to mediate the removal …

The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised

GB Frisoni, D Altomare, DR Thal, F Ribaldi… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The current conceptualization of Alzheimer disease (AD) is driven by the amyloid
hypothesis, in which a deterministic chain of events leads from amyloid deposition and then …

Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency

JW Nelson, PB Randolph, SP Shen, KA Everette… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prime editing enables the installation of virtually any combination of point mutations, small
insertions or small deletions in the DNA of living cells. A prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) …