Study Concludes Microtubule-Stabilizing Drugs May Not Be Effective against Alzheimer’s

Scientists from Drexel University College of Medicine say they have published a study that reverses the popular scientific dogma that the protein tau stabilizes microtubules within brain cells. Their work (“ Tau Does Not Stabilize Axonal Microtubules but Rather Enables Them to Have Long Labile Domains ”), which appears in  Current Biology , suggests just the opposite. Tau's actual role in the neuron is to allow microtubules to grow and remain dynamic.This is critical b