Study gives new clues on how Alzheimer's spreads

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Alzheimer's disease appears to spread in a predictable pattern, infecting brain cell after brain cell as the disease spreads along linked circuits known as synapses, according to a new study

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Study gives new clues on how Alzheimer's spreads

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Alzheimer's disease appears to spread in a predictable pattern, infecting brain cell after brain cell as the disease spreads along linked circuits known as synapses, according to a new study

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Scientists Use Stem Cells, Skin Cells to Create Brain Cells Lost to Alzheimer’

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

FRIDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) — In what experts are calling a significant step forward in Alzheimer’s research, scientists have for the first time turned human embryonic stem cells and a form of human skin cell into a type of brain cell that’s lost to Alzheimer’s disease.

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