How to Use tau in a Sentence

tau

noun
  • As a result, no tau fibrils were formed.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The key difference lies in how the brain handles tau over time.
    — New Atlas, 30 June 2025
  • That leads to a buildup of tau, an abnormal protein that can take over parts of the brain.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • One key protein known to build up in the brain cells of Alzheimer's patients is called tau.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Researchers are looking at a way to prevent tau from forming tangles.
    — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Nor did researchers check for the protein tau, which cling together and form tangles in brain cells.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Also, spinal taps can show whether amyloid and tau proteins are present in cerebrospinal fluid.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Another protein, called tau, has also been linked to the disease.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • When the high tau group was included, that improvement dropped to 29%.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • The condition is believed to be caused by a buildup of beta amyloid plaques and tau protein in the brain.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 July 2020
  • Many recent studies of these tests have focused not on beta amyloid, but on certain forms of tau.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 21 July 2021
  • Too much tau can damage blood vessels and brain cells, and this buildup is also a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The test calculates a ratio of two proteins, tau and amyloid, found in blood plasma.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • The electron, muon and tau flavors would all be observable, at least in principle.
    — William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • The particles come in three flavors—electron, muon, and tau—depending on how they are born.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Later research identified the proteins that made up the plaques as amyloid and those that form the tangles as tau.
    — Christian Holscher, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • That repetition leads to a buildup of tau protein, an abnormal protein that kills and eats away at brain cells.
    — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Another target is the protein tau, which forms tangles in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s rests on finding errant forms of amyloid and tau.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
  • There are three kinds—the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Normally, only small amounts of tau can be found in the cytoplasm or the cellular fluid.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • But earlier cognitive changes could instead be the result of buildups of tau, or changes in blood vessel structure.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Yet post-mortem autopsies often find none of the amyloid plaques or tau tangles that are hallmarks of the mind-robbing illness.
    — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2019
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Plaques and fibrous tangles are formed by the proteins beta-amyloid and tau and are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
  • All of the brains had evidence of amyloid plaques and another Alzheimer’s hallmark, tau tangles.
    — NBC News, 12 July 2019
  • This was followed by the discovery of a third flavor, the tau neutrino, in 2000.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2019
  • When this intermediate group was combined with the group with higher levels of tau, the figure was 22%.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • Curiosity is starting to see haze from the storm on the other side of the planet, registering a tau of about 2 or 3.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018
  • Bateman and his team had been studying tau tangles, the abnormal clumps of protein that form inside the neurons of people with Alzheimer's.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Apr. 2025

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