NEW Preprint from our group, very happy to share: Genetic variation associated with human longevity and Alzheimer's disease risk act through microglia and oligodendrocyte cross-talk

Promising Alzheimer’s therapy and related drugs shrink brains science.org/content/articl…

This is the case for all UK brain banks. Many researchers want to use the amazing resources that brain banks have for vital research. These resources cost money to run yet funding agencies and researchers think they can run on thin air!! #pathologymatters

More funding desperately needed for all UK brain banks as researchers and funding agencies think they can run on thin air! QS Brain Bank Cambridge Brain Bank Brain Bank NW London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank

🚨Last chance to apply! Opportunity for a Research Fellow to join Prof Adrian Isaacs' lab (UK DRI at UCL) Exciting project performing CRISPR screening and cell-based assays to investigate membrane repair👉buff.ly/3UakmHK

Tories are cunts It all plays into their master plan of a US health care system - Cleveland Cinic, Mayo clinic, NYU private enterprises abysmal

In two weeks, #eurotau will start (April 27-28, 2023). Which topics will be developed in Lille, France at Eurotau? See the list of speakers and topics: eurotau.fr/?page_id=693

Great news for neurodegeneration in general and Parkinson’s in particular. I truly hope these advances will accelerate momentum and lead to similar breakthrough for less common neurodegenerative diseases! Congrats to michaeljfox.org and all those involved michaeljfox.org/publication/mi…

This is a GREAT idea!

Next in our BSGCT PPE series we have the ⭐️ Prof Gabriele Lignani providing a talk on "A novel way of designing gene therapy approaches for neurological diseases." bsgct.org/public-and-pat… ESGCT ASGCT Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology 🧬

Why isn’t the university marking boycott getting more news coverage? Up to 1 in 3 final year students are currently learning they won’t graduate with a grade because of the pay dispute. My daughter - along with many others - has been offered £500 as compensation. After spending

Evolving prion-like conformers differentially alter postsynaptic proteins in neurons inoculated with distinct isolates of Alzheimer's disease tau. rdcu.be/dmyWf

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/09/19/sci…

Why does only 3R Tau form insoluble deposits in Pick's disease? Stellar work from Pijush Chakraborty shows that acetylation promotes aggregation of 3R Tau but blocks aggregation of 4R Tau. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Check out our new paper on pre-print bioRxiv, "Spinal cord pathology in a Dravet Syndrome mouse model"; biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Juan Antinao Díaz Ellie Chilcott Anna Keegan Stephanie Schorge Simon Waddington Dravet Syndrome UK Dravet Syndrome Foundation Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity LifeArc UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health

‘Hard to know’ if Bruce Willis is aware of dementia condition, wife says theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/…

ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…

‘I hate it. It sucks. But it didn’t defeat me’: Michael J Fox on pity, Parkinson’s – and a potential cure theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/…

🇵🇸🇮🇱 A child walked 12 kilometres barefoot to find flour for his family. He found no flour and ended up getting lost.