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Gene therapy promising for Alzheimer’s treatment

A recent study linking Alzheimer’s disease with the repression of gene activity in the brain is a promising development in potential treatment of the disease, according to a recent news release by the National Institutes of Health.

“These findings provide a glimpse of the brain shutting down the ability to form new memories gene by gene in Alzheimer’s disease, and offer hope that we may be able to counteract this process,” said Roderick Corriveau, Ph.D., a program director at NIH’s National ...

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