In response to the current federal funding crisis, the Les Turner ALS Foundation announced that it will make a $500,000 gift to support ALS research at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. With a federal funding freeze on Northwestern research, this historic gift will support researchers in pursuit of a cure for the disease.| www.feinberg.northwestern.edu
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a surprising molecular link between HIV-1 and a protein fragment associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.| News Center
Over a quarter-century of research, Northwestern scientists have been studying individuals over eighty with memory capacity of people at least three decades younger, to identify the biological and behavioral traits associated with “SuperAging.” The post What Makes a SuperAger? appeared first on News Center.| News Center