# Anti-tau research

Source: https://onco.cc/fronts/da-front-anti-tau/  
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## TL;DR

Tau is the tangle protein. Treatments that lower or block tau remain investigational.

## Summary

Tau tracks clinical stage more closely than amyloid in many studies. Antisense and antibody programmes are in trials. None is an approved dementia treatment on this atlas.

## Fields

- Kind: Front
- Last checked: 2026-09-21
- Tags: dementia-atlas

## Sources

- ClinicalTrials.gov: https://clinicaltrials.gov

## Connected records

- technologies: [Tau-directed therapeutics](https://onco.cc/technologies/da-tech-tau-therapeutics/)
- targets: [Tau](https://onco.cc/targets/da-target-tau/)
- diagnoses: [Alzheimer’s disease](https://onco.cc/diagnoses/alzheimers-disease/)

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