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Dementia patients and their carers to be asked about direction of drug research

19 Mar 2025

Cambridge researchers are seeking the views of people with lived experience of dementia – patients and their friends and families – on which existing...

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Cambridge researcher aims to unlock new dementia treatments with nationwide blood test trial

13 Feb 2025

A simple blood test is being rolled out across the UK as part of a new study to detect early signs of dementia decades before it develops and help...

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Antibiotics, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication linked to reduced risk of dementia

21 Jan 2025

Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication are associated with reduced risk of dementia, according to new research that...

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Glaucoma drug shows promise against neurodegenerative diseases, animal studies suggest

31 Oct 2024

A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which...

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‘Far from clear’ new Alzheimer’s drugs will make a difference at a population level, say researchers

06 Aug 2024

Cambridge researchers have cast doubt on whether new amyloid immunotherapy drugs will have the desired effect of significantly reducing the impact of...

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Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease

12 Jul 2024

Cambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs...

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Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments

14 May 2024

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will...

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UK-wide trials to begin on blood tests for diagnosing dementia

04 Apr 2024

Cambridge researchers are helping lead countrywide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia, in a bid to improve...

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Scientists identify genes linked to DNA damage and human disease

16 Feb 2024

Cambridge scientists have identified more than one hundred key genes linked to DNA damage through systematic screening of nearly 1,000 genetically...

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Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke and vascular dementia

16 Nov 2023

Cambridge scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these...

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HIV drug helps protect against build-up of dementia-related proteins in mouse brains

26 Apr 2023

Cambridge scientists have shown how the brain’s ability to clear out toxic proteins is impaired in Huntington’s disease and other forms of dementia...

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Gene therapy approach to boost ‘cold shock protein’ in the brain without cooling protects mice against neurodegenerative disease

24 Mar 2023

Scientists in Cambridge and Berlin have used a form of gene therapy to increase levels of the so-called ‘cold shock protein’ in the brains of mice...

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