Now that more complex aspects of biology are becoming accessible to investigations at the molecular and chemical level, the powerful approaches of mechanistic enzymology will enable the incisive ...

A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated in ...

A drug used to treat glaucoma may protect against tau protein buildup in the brain, a key marker of dementias such as ...

Researchers have discovered that methazolamide, a glaucoma drug, can clear tau protein build-up in the brain, a key factor in dementias like Alzheimer's. This study, using zebrafish and mice models, s ...

A team led by Prof. Wang Chao and Prof. Huang Chengdong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

Researchers from Arizona State University and international collaborators have unveiled a method that significantly increases ...

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors show potential in reducing tau protein buildup, offering new therapeutic avenues for neurodegenerative diseases like tauopathies.

Animal studies have shown the potential of a drug commonly used to treat glaucoma -- a chronic eye disease -- in fighting against dementia. Researchers in the UK Dementia Research Institute at the ...

Just like your left and right hand exist as mirror images of each other, many biological molecules have their own form of ...

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University is pioneering transformational discoveries in synthetic biology, biotechnology ... and collaborative nature of the ...