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Blood Test Identifies Women At Risk From Alzheimer's
07 November 2009
Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden...
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Familial Alzheimer Disease Network Enrolling, Making First Move Toward Clinical Trials
06 November 2009
This past October, 214 researchers from the U.S., Europe, and Australia, as well as representatives of families with aggressive genetic forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), met at Washington University, St...
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Promise For Exploring, Treating Alzheimer's Shown By Hybrid Molecules
05 November 2009
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating...
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