Untangling Alzheimer's by Paring Plaques Bolsters Amyloid Theory

摘要

Consider it a potential biomedical bargain— two therapies for the price of one. New research in mice suggests that targeting one of the two molecular aggregates gumming up brains with Alzheimer's disease also rids tissue of the other, as long as treatment starts early enough. This finding and a recent analysis of an interrupted Alzheimer's vaccine trial in people have brought new life to the idea of immunotherapy for the debilitating disease.