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Laura Helmuth

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PubMed2003

Detangling Alzheimer's disease. New insights into the biological bases of the most common cause of dementia are pointing to better diagnostics and possible therapeutics.

Alzheimer's disease afflicts 4.5 million people in the United States, and the number is expected to rise to 16 million by the year 2050, as the population ages. Researchers are scrambling to find genetic risk factors, decipher disease mechanisms, and develop reliable diagnostic tests that detect the illness at its earliest, potentially most treatable stage. Using these findings, they hope to devise new therapeutic approaches. Current clinical trials are assessing novel techniques that stall or reverse Alzheimer-like neuropathology in mice.

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