Alzheimer’s, the brain disease that saps away not just memories but, gradually, identity, is now a little less mysterious. In two large studies of more than 54,000 people, scientists have found five new genes linked to the disease.
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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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AUSTRALIAN scientists have made a significant advance in the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition they describe as an accumulation of brain “rust”.
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Alzheimer’s from brain ‘rust’