Saturday, September 7, 2013

Alzheimer's 'missing link' found: Promising target for new drugs

Yale School of Medicine researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer's disease, they report in the Sept. 4 issue of the journal NeuronResearchers also found that blocking the protein with an existing drug can restore memory in mice with brain damage that mimics the disease.



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