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April 12, 2022
by Patricia Tomasi

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New Study Digs Deeper Into The Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease

April 12, 2022 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

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A new study published in the Journal of Neurobiology of Disease looked at organelle dysfunction in human astrocytes in Alzheimer’s Disease. “We have analyzed transcriptomic data (gene-expression data) from almost 800 patients with Alzheimer’s disease and controls to look for molecular signatures of astrocytes, a type of brain cell. Transcriptomes contain information about the cell genome, over 30,000 genes,” study author Elena Galea told us. [More]