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Can Rejuvenating the Aging Liver Help Clear Alzheimer’s and Heart Disease Risk Factors? A Rat Study Suggests a Path

In aged rats, a two-week treatment with the experimental drug cinaciguat reopened the tiny pores of liver filter cells and brought blood levels of amyloid beta and LDL cholesterol back to youthful levels. Here is what the study shows, and what it does not.

The ‘Big Bang’ of Alzheimer’s Scientists ID genesis of disease, focus efforts on deadly shape-shifting tau protein

Scientists have discovered a “Big Bang” of Alzheimer’s disease – the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain. A study from UT Southwestern’s O’Donnell Brain Institute provides novel... Continue Reading →

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