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View allA DNA mystery: A woman was supposed to get Alzheimer’s by 50. Why didn’t she?
In the fall of 2015, Yakeel Quiroz, PhD heard about a woman who defied everything she knew about Alzheimer’s disease. Quiroz, a neuroimaging researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, has spent more than two decades studying an extended Colombian family with a genetic mutation that causes a devastating younger-onset version of the disease.
Drug May Extend ALS Patients’ Lives by Several Months, Study Finds
Following up on earlier findings, a new study led by Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD at the Healey Center for ALS shows that treatment AMX0035 may extend life as well as slowing the progression of ALS.
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