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    What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 2)

    By Yasemin Saplakoglu

    May 10, 2023

    If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?

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    For three decades, most Alzheimer’s researchers have stuck by the theory that aggregations of proteins called amyloid plaques cause the disease. Researchers investigating alternative possibilities have faced resistance from the biomedical establishment for decades, but intriguing theories about the role of defects in protein processing and the immune system have emerged.

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