Alzheimer’s disease - the most common form of dementia - has become a major public health concern as the world’s populations age. Slow and chronic in nature, the condition affects emotional control, ...

Histone chaperones represent a structurally and functionally diverse family of histone-binding proteins that prevent promiscuous interactions of histones before their assembly into chromatin. DAXX is ...

For the first time, Penn Medicine researchers showed how restoring levels of the protein DAXX and a large group of similar proteins prevents the misfolding of the rogue proteins known to drive ...

The idea that mutations in the DJ-1 gene cause early onset Parkinson disease is unquestioned, but just how loss of DJ-1 function leads to destruction of dopamine neurons has been a query without an ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the salon Daxx and Heather Nielsen own. ROCKFORD — Daxx Nielsen may be "the new guy," sitting behind the drum kit on stage with ...

Tumor cells are known to produce high amounts of intracellular lipids, leading to increased levels of fatty acids, cholesterol and membrane phospholipids. Death domain-associated protein (DAXX) is a ...

Researchers have shown how restoring levels of the protein DAXX and a large group of similar proteins prevents the misfolding of the rogue proteins known to drive Alzheimer's and other ...