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Understanding Alzheimer’s

By James Mitchell Crow2018-05-11T11:43:00

Understanding Alzheimer's - Amyloid plaques

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After hundreds of failed drug candidates, James Mitchell Crow asks if this is the last roll of the dice for the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the third largest killer of the elderly, but no new drugs have been approved to treat it since 2002. Studying ‘familial’ Alzheimer’s, where people develop the diseease much younger and more predictably, could lead to a better understanding of the disease, and hopefully a cure