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Tau a driver of Alzheimer’s disease, study of thousands of brains reveals

March 24, 2015 by

By examining more than 3,600 postmortem brains, researchers have found that the progression of dysfunctional tau protein drives the cognitive decline and memory loss seen in Alzheimer’s disease.

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