A holistic inquiry into how toxic tau impacts synapses provides a new take on the processes that lead to neuronal dysfunction and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. A tool, developed in the Tracy lab ...
Tau protein aggregates are present in a group of disorders, collectively termed the tauopathies. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common of those disorders, while frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is ...
Utilizing cutting-edge proteomics, researchers at the Buck Institute and elsewhere have mapped the "tau interactome" uncovering new findings about the role of tau in neurodegenerative disease.