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Scientists reveal how beta-amyloid may cause Alzheimer’s

September 19, 2013 by

Scientists have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death.

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