Supersized Version of Alzheimer’s Protein Avoids Clumping in Brain

Itzhak Fischer, PhD, and Peter Baas, PhD, professors in the College of Medicine, were quoted in an Aug. 16 article in The Transmitter about how “Big tau” may explain why some brain regions, such as the cerebellum and brainstem, are largely spared from neurodegeneration, even though tau is expressed throughout the nervous system.