WARSAW, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Polish anti-corruption police secured documents from the headquarters of broadcaster Polsat on Thursday, a Polsat spokesperson said, amid an investigation into the ...

Amyloid fibrils appear in many neurodegenerative diseases, and scientists are eager to understand how they form and spread. But amyloids—clumped aggregations of misfolded proteins—can be ...

Cardiac amyloidosis is a rare condition defined by the abnormal production of proteins that bind together to form amyloid proteins. These amyloids can gather in different organs throughout the ...

For a healthy brain as we age, we need healthy blood pressure. However, nearly half of American adults have hypertension, which is one of the most common - and preventable - risk factors for ...

PIEN, Poland, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an unmarked ...

Early data suggest Roche’s antibody may safely and quickly remove amyloid plaque for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, though the midstage study has been tied to one death. The interim data ...

Wojtek the bear was adopted by Polish soldiers and fought alongside them in World War Two A bear, famed for his love of beer, cigarettes and boxing and who was by the side of Allied troops in ...

Wojtek was adopted by the 2nd Polish Corps in 1943, after his mother was shot by hunters. The Syrian brown bear travelled with them from the Middle East as they were deployed to Italy. Allied ...

But U.S. regulators have in recent years approved similar medicines that can reduce levels of the protein, called amyloid, in patients’ brains and that in trials modestly slowed the worsening of ...

These 'superspreaders' may help explain why abnormal clumps of the naturally occurring amyloid beta proteins increase as the debilitating disease progresses. "This work brings us another step closer ...

ARIA is the most common side effect of anti–amyloid-beta MAB treatment. MABs increase vascular permeability, which can result in inflammation and leakage of proteinaceous fluid and blood ...