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NIH funds innovative alzheimer’s research initiated at UCSB

A completely new approach to the study of Alzheimer’s disease, initiated by a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, may solve a critical piece in the puzzle of the disease. This tragic neurological illness progressively erases memory in its millions of victims. The key to the new approach is understanding the way certain proteins in the brain fold, or rather “misfold.”

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