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Re-Thinking Alzheimer’s Research by Looking to Our Ancestors

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A pair of Harvard researchers is challenging what we think we understood about Alzheimer’s—and might have stumbled on a big clue for a cure.

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Alzheimer’s disease has no cure—yet.

It was discovered in 1906 by its namesake, Dr. Alois Alzheimer. But it wasn’t until the 1980s that research on causes and prevention began, so it’s only

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