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AUGUST 13, 2019

What Causes Alzheimer’s?

By SPC News Staff

Most efforts at finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, are focused on understanding abnormal structures in the brain, which are characterized by plaques and tangles. But a University of California, Riverside, research team has identified alternate chemistry that could account for the various pathologies associated with the disease (ACS Cent Sci [Epub Aug 7, 2019]. doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00369).

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