Selkoe, Dennis

Scope and Contents From the Series: The correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing mail generated from 1975 to around 2012. Early parts of the collection consist mostly of handwritten or typed letters, with onion paper copies being common. In the later years, Maniatis transitioned to mostly using email and the majority of the correspondence is in that format.The collection is separated into seven subseries:I. Chronological Files, Set 1, 1981-1983 II. Chronological Files, Set 2, 1975-2005...

Scope and Contents The Molecular Biology of Alzheimer's Disease meeting showed that research on this disease is at a more satisfactory stage. This meeting included a remarkable group of studies ranging from neuroanatomical genetics, through protein chemistry, to molecular genetics. In a particularly exciting session, it was shown that p-amyloid protein is not a constituent of the paired helical filaments that accumulate in the tangles and plaques that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. In addition to...