Alzheimer's: New hope for research after years of gloom and dead ends

 

Findings from the US bring us closer to understanding what causes this disease, but ‘Alzheimer’s mice’ are not a perfect parallel for what happens in human brains.

The hope that Alzheimer’s will one day be curable has in recent years faded to a flicker as successive clinical trials ended in failure. But the prospect of a treatment this week grew a little brighter as scientists uncovered a new and unexpected explanation for the development of the disease. 

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