Rehabilitation of a β-amyloid bad boy

Ever since Alois Alzheimer first reported clumps of protein in the brains of patients who had died from dementia, over one hundred years ago, beta-amyloid has been assumed to be the toxin that builds up in the brain and causes the massive neuronal death associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But a researcher in Rudy Tanzi’s lab at […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/1U5gy6G