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A team of scientists in the UK has claimed to have found the reason behind brain cell death which leads to Alzheimer's, offering hope for a future new line of drugs which could cure the disease.
The buildup of amyloid plaques between neurons and the formation of tangles of tau form, a molecule called MEG3 is produced by the brain cells resulting in cellular suicide.
A groundbreaking study in the Science medical journal has revealed that the brain cells of those afflicted with Alzheimer's are killing themselves by inflammatory suicide
A team of scientists has managed to prevent neuronal death with oral drugs administered to rodents that have been genetically modified to imitate dementia
Discovery of how neurons die by dementia researchers ‘paves the way for new treatments to stop disease progression in the future’