Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...

Researchers use AI and postmortem tissue to reveal that tau PET scans are often influenced by iron and neuroinflammation rather than tau tangles alone.

This article was originally published in the 2025 Equine Research Horizons, a publication of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. Reprinted with permission.Dr. Mathieu Spriet is an Associate ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the Siemens Biograph mMR system, which is the first device able to conduct a PET scan and an MRI scan at the same time, according to an FDA news release.

In amyloid PET, visual and quantitative reads are at odds 6 percent of the time. In some instances, regional accumulation might be to blame. People with discordant scans accumulated amyloid faster ...

A PSMA PET scan found more recurrent prostate cancer at low PSA levels than a standard scan, helping guide more potentially curative treatment decisions. A newer type of prostate cancer scan called 64 ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.