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Newswise — In the wake of recent disappointments over clinical trials targeting amyloid plaque build-up in Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are focusing more attention on misfolded tau protein, another culprit in brain diseases that cause dementia.
New research published in Science Translational Medicine finds that targeting abnormal tau through the suppression of a gene called MSUT2 (mammalian suppressor of tauopathy 2) shows promise.
Tau, like amyloid protein, is another substance that builds up in Alzheimer’s disease and damages brain cells. However, clinical trials targeting tau have been far less numerous in part because tau-targeted drugs have been hard to find.
In this study, researchers concluded that suppressing…
