A new type of degenerative brain disease, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), was recognized just a decade or so ago, and remains relatively unknown. In the disease, the TDP-43 protein accumulates particularly in the limbic brain regions, which are also affected in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Accordingly, symptoms of LATE are similar to those of early Alzheimer's, but typically progress more slowly and are milder.
Read more …A new type of degenerative brain disease underlying dementia is very common among the oldest old
Black soldier flies are now commercially used to consume organic waste -- but genetic modifications proposed by Macquarie University bioscientists could see the insects digesting a wider variety of refuse, while also creating raw ingredients for industry.
Read more …Reduce, reuse, 're-fly-cle'