Duke Medicine’s Health News (HN)
Volume 25 • Number 12 • December 2019
A New Theory of Alzheimer’s Disease
For 50 years, scientists have known that the devastating cognitive effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are caused by plaques and tangles of two proteins, beta-amyloid and tau. But despite billions of research dollars and countless clinical trials, they still don’t how to prevent those normally innocuous proteins from building up …