New details on how healthy neurons metabolize glucose have implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases. The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body’s sugar energy, or glucose, each day. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new light on exactly how neurons—the … Continue reading The Brain’s Sweet Secrets: Glucose Metabolism Holds the Key to Neurodegenerative Diseases