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Researchers Find Link Between Glaucoma, Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers say they have found a link between a blinding eye disease called glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease. Investigators say the connection has to do with a protein called beta amyloid.

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Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles

The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as "Google of the brain." The atlas now has a companion or the brain's working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of the proteins, or proteome map, that those genes express.

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