Eric Kandel

It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.

American Scientist

Poul Anderson

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

American Writer

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.

Remember, 'tau' comes from the Greek alphabet, often encountered in academic or scientific contexts.

Greek Origin

'Tau' in physics implies precision; don't confuse it with the everyday lowercase 't' for time.

Scientific Usage

'Tau' is often used in the context of time dilation where time intervals differ due to speed.

Relativity Context

'Tau' for proper time is an involved concept; associate it with high-level physics discussions.

Advanced Concept

In physics, 'tau' refers to a lepton, a fundamental particle involved in complex topics.

Particle Physics

Though related, 'tau' particles are distinct from electrons or muons — don't confuse them.

Not Electron/Muon

'Tau' in biology signifies a brain cell protein, often linked to neural science discussions.

Brain Protein

Misfolded 'tau' proteins in biology can indicate brain diseases, useful in medical contexts.

Associated with Disease

Using 'tau' accurately in biology shows specialized knowledge of brain function and health.

Specialized Vocabulary

 as a person who's living to relating to the deceased as a person who's an ancestor. And here you can see these wooden effigies of the ancestors, so these are people who have already been buried, already had a funeral ceremony. These are called tau tau. So the funeral ceremony itself

Kelli Swazey: Life that...

 is correctly named -- very short range and very weak, so they just fly through you. And these particles have been discovered over the last century, pretty much. The first one, the electron, was discovered in 1897, and the last one, this thing called the tau neutrino,

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 Our microglia janitor cells become hyper-activated, releasing chemicals that cause inflammation and cellular damage. We think they might actually start clearing away the synapses themselves. A crucial neural transport protein called "tau" becomes hyperphosphorylated

What You Can Do to...

 The brain's nerve cells contain a network of tubes that act like a highway for food molecules among other things. Usually, the tau protein ensures that these tubes are straight, allowing molecules to pass through freely. But in Alzheimer's disease,

What is Alzheimer's...

 cave my dog tau and I drove down a road that's coming up in a valley that you'll see in just a moment into an area where I knew I was not going to find anything and the reason I knew I wasn't going to find anything is because I had found one

Part Ape, Part Human:...

 can imagine that would have been a real man's head he would never have survived a blow like that so if tau Hoffa was depicting reality rather than just some theory then this would have caused a huge amount of suffering in the medieval world

Battle of the Sexes PIPE...

 Measurements of weak interactions found that there are different kinds of neutrinos associated with the electron, muon, and tau. All these particles also have antimatter versions, which have the opposite charge but are otherwise identical.

What’s the smallest...

 It acts to maximize future freedom of action, or keep options open, with some strength T, with the diversity of possible accessible futures, S, up to some future time horizon, tau. In short, intelligence doesn't like to get trapped.

Alex Wissner-Gross: A...

 followed by problems with thinking and memory that can, in some cases, even result in dementia. The culprit is a protein called tau. Usually, tau proteins support tiny tubes inside our axons called microtubules.

What happens when you...

 telecommunications satellites this is our job so they in their labs had been working on a project called TSX which subsequently became known as Telstar and they decided they were gonna launch tau