A growing body of research suggests that sleep may be more than a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease — it may also play a role in how the disease develops and progresses. Now, new research from the Univer...

Nature Metabolism, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42255-026-01538-4Through spatial multiomics, spatial stable isotope tracing and retrospective cohort analyses, this study identifies hyperglycosylation as a driver of Alzheimer’s disease and a promising therapeutic target.

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Mitochondria regenerate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through oxidative phosphorylation. This process is carried out by five membrane-bound complexes collectively known as the respiratory chain, workin...

Mitochondrial dynamics and metabolites reciprocally influence each other. In this study, Tang et al. discover a role of β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) in regulating mitochondrial functions. BHB promotes the ...

The 5xFAD transgenic model, popular in Alzheimer’s disease research, exhibits varying cerebral plaque burden depending on the parental source of the transgene. Mice inheriting the transgene paternally...

Neurodegeneration is a seminal feature of many neurological disorders. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is caused by repetitive head impacts (RHI) and is characterized by sulcal tau pathology. H...

De Bruin et al. report that traumatic brain injury does not inherently elevate the Alzheimer’s pathologies amyloid-β or tau, but is associated with their u

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a central regulator of microglial activity and sequence variants are major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD). To better...

To engineer cells that can specifically target the central nervous system (CNS), we identified extracellular CNS-specific antigens, including components of the CNS extracellular matrix and surface mol...

Despite progress in designing protein-binding proteins, the shape matching of designs to targets is lower than in many native protein complexes, and design efforts have failed for the tumor necrosis f...

Studies using mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma identify an association between age, iron homeostasis and tumour initiation potential that involves NUPR1 and lipocalin-2.

Madhavan et al. identify and characterize the selective regulation of protein solubility by the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) across a range of models. βHB exposure rescues cell-based and C. elegans models of amyloid-β proteotoxicity, and induces clearance of neurodegeneration-related proteins from aged mouse brain following exogenous ketone supplementation.

Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the recover...