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For the first time, researchers mapped the molecular structure of a beta-amyloid protein aggregate, or toxic proteins that accumulate in the brain and lead…
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While you might read reports about the ongoing debate over what causes Alzheimer’s, Rudy Tanzi, an Alzheimer’s researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and professor…
Scientists have long speculated whether a build-up of metals in the brain might trigger Alzheimer’s, a school of thought that dates back to a…
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