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Latest Study from the Nixon Lab Challenges Decades Old Theory

Evidence mounts for alternate origins of Alzheimer’s disease plaque,” is the title of the recent article in Science Daily. The article, which quotes Ju-Hyun Lee and Ralph Nixon, lead authors of the paper featured in the June 2022 issue of Nature Neuroscience, reports on the important new study that challenges the decades old amyloid cascade hypothesis and could explain why drugs designed to remove amyloid deposits have failed to stop disease.