A Long-Held Idea About Alzheimer’s Tau May Be Wrong

A Long-Held Idea About Alzheimer’s Tau May Be Wrong

Scientists have long focused on how Alzheimer’s-linked tau reaches dendrites, but new research suggests the protein is actually born there, shifting attention to the earliest steps before harmful tangles form. Scientists have long thought that tau, the protein that forms Alzheimer’s tangles, moves into the wrong parts of neurons as the disease develops. New research [...]