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Treatments to Stop Alzheimer’s Step Closer as Scientists Discover Key Inhibitor Molecule
This undated file combo image provided by Merck & Co., shows a cross section of a normal brain, right, and one of a brain damaged by advanced Alzheimer’s disease. (AP Photo/Merck & Co.)
The UK and Swedish researchers suggest their finding will help the discovery of drugs that could halt Alzheimer’s disease progression.
They write about their discovery and its implications in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Lead author Dr. Samuel Cohen – a research fellow at St John’s College in Cambridge, UK – says with studies like theirs, we are beginning to reap the rewards of the extensive work that has been done to increase our understanding of the microscopic processes involved in the development of Alzheimer’s.
