Why is there no Alzheimer’s cure? Lies, greed says a new book
In ‘Doctored’, Charles Piller, a science journalist, details how groupthink and dishonesty steered Alzheimer’s research off ...
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How Decades Of Research Misconduct Stalled An Alzheimer’s Cure
Research supporting the amyloid hypothesis—the idea that Alzheimer's is caused by a buildup of amyloid plaques in the ...
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A Scandal in Alzheimer’s Research Shows How Science Can Go Astray
Charles Piller, author of the new book Doctored, says the scientific community needs “to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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Why Alzheimer’s scientists are rethinking the amyloid hypothesis
Unlike the previous two approvals, this new therapeutic, named donanemab, targets amyloid beta only at a later stage when it has clumped together to form plaques. It offers similar efficacy to ...
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Tau and Beta-Amyloid Disrupt Memory and Emotions Differently in Alzheimer’s
Researchers from the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) have found that tau protein and beta-amyloid – two pathological ... with Alzheimer’s disease, forming ...
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Amyloid beta plaque in neurons modeling late-onset Alzheimer's disease (IMAGE)
Shown is a 3D reconstruction of amyloid beta plaque deposition (green) between neurons (red) grown in the lab. These neurons were transformed from human skin cells taken from patients with late ...