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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Science Advances reported that disrupting the membrane-associated periodic skeleton (MPS), an actin-spectrin lattice beneath neuron membranes, reduced the fitted amyloid precursor protein (APP) uptake time constant in cultured mouse hipp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Acta Neuropathologica Communications used Boolean-network AI analysis of Alzheimer’s RNA-seq data to identify a 40-gene disease signature and validate CgA-KO/PS19 mice as a model of asymptomatic Alzheimer’s-like resilience. Key Findings…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Microbiome found that in older adults at metabolic risk, virgin olive oil was linked to better cognitive preservation and richer gut microbiota, while common refined olive oil pointed the other way. Key Findings Metabolic-risk cohort tra…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Translational Psychiatry found that three different plasma p-tau217 assays separated Alzheimer’s dementia from controls and frontotemporal degeneration with excellent accuracy, shifting the test from whether the marker works to which pla…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Translational Neurodegeneration found that reducing NDST3, a microtubule deacetylase that affects lysosome acidity, restored lysosomal acidification and reduced amyloid-beta and tau pathology in Alzheimer’s cell and mouse models. Key Fin…
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