Core Value of Amyloids
Fibrils show therapeutic effect in mice
Fibrils show therapeutic effect in mice
For decades, experts in brain disorders have fixated on the toxic properties of
amyloids...
Laboratory Research
Update: Risk Factors
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
Life in the Western world has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. We spend more...
Clinical Research, Laboratory Research, Meetings
Biomarkers: Foretelling the Future
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
Predicting whether patients will progress to disability—and how they will respond to treatments—are...
Clinical Research, Meetings
Evidence Grows for Pathogenic Antibody
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
American Academy of Neurology meeting report
For years, MS researchers have searched in vain for a holy grail: a protein target...
Laboratory Research, Meetings
Resilience Despite Relapse
Frequent early relapses don’t always foretell future disability
Frequent early relapses don’t always foretell future disability
Frequent flare-ups in the first few years of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis have long been thought to predict...
Clinical Research
Salt Sampler
Dietary salt swells autoimmune pathogenic T cells in mice
Dietary salt swells autoimmune pathogenic T cells in mice
It's not every day multiple sclerosis studies grab news headlines around the world, but...
Laboratory Research
A GWAS Gets Into Shape
Researchers connect gene variants to structure of brain lesions
Researchers connect gene variants to structure of brain lesions
Researchers have combed through our DNA to pinpoint gene versions that make some people more...
Clinical Research, Methods
Resisting Arrest
Regulatory T cells outmatched in active disease
Regulatory T cells outmatched in active disease
If immunology had its own comic book series, a recurring MS story line would pit...
Laboratory Research
Spinal Vision
Advanced MRI measures discern disability levels better than standard techniques
Advanced MRI measures discern disability levels better than standard techniques
Brain scans routinely help doctors diagnose MS, but the discrepancy between the amount of visibly damaged tissue and...
Laboratory Research, Methods
Bad Presentation
Researchers identify cells that might incite nerve-damaging T cells in MS
Researchers identify cells that might incite nerve-damaging T cells in MS
T cells don’t go rogue without provocation. Researchers have now fingered the cells that might...
Laboratory Research