Cholesterol is an essential component of the membrane surrounding every human cell, despite its poor reputation as a health concern when its blood levels are too high. The key to health is having the ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of ceramide (CER) and cholesterol (CHOL) on membrane fusion mediated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

The prion-like propagation of aggregated tau may promote the characteristic spread of tangles from one neuron to the next in AD. For this type of propagation to work, extracellular aggregates must ...