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Breakthrough Alzheimer's Drug Targets Key 'Hotspots' to Suppress Toxic Tangles
The drug is RI-AG03, and it's a peptide inhibitor (a blocker of proteins). In tests on fruit flies and human cells, it has ...
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RI-AG03 targets main promoters of tau protein aggregation at once
The increasing knowledge on how protein tau is organized in live cells has shown that the protein forms nanometer-sized ...
‘One-of-a-kind’ new Alzheimer’s drug shows promise: ‘An exciting development’
“This research is taking promising steps towards a new one-of-a-kind therapy which targets tau, a damaging protein in the ...
Promising Alzheimer's drug candidate prevents buildup of tau proteins in lab and fruit fly studies
An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has made a promising breakthrough in the development of ...
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Dual-Targeting Drug Halts Tau Accumulation in Alzheimer’s
Scientists have developed a drug that targets both major aggregation-promoting sites of the Tau protein, a key player in ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News1d
Promising new Alzheimer’s drug candidate developed by international research team
A peptide inhibitor called RI-AG03 targets major aggregation “hot spots” of tau proteins, believed to be a key driver of ...
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Breakthrough Peptide Inhibitor Targets Tau Protein Aggregation, Paving the Way for New Alzheimer’s Treatments
An international team of researchers has made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer's drug development with the ...
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‘One-of-a-kind’ new Alzheimer’s drug shows promise: ‘An exciting development’
Now, an international team led by Lancaster University in the UK says it has developed a drug called RI-AG03 that targets and blocks the two “hot spots” where tau clumping tends to occur.
Alzheimer's 'First' Achieved With Drug That Hits Hotspots
Scientists say they have achieved a "first" in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. In a study published in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, a team of researchers report the ...