Could the immune system be key to Alzheimer’s disease? – Knowable Magazine

Increasing evidence suggests that chronic inflammation takes a toll on the brain over the course of a lifetimeFor nearly 30 years, the hunt for a cure for Alzheimers disease has focused on a protein called beta-amyloid. Amyloid, the hypothesis goes, builds up inside the brain to bring about this memory-robbing disorder, which afflicts some 47 million people worldwide.
Billions of dollars have poured into developing therapies aimed at reducing amyloid thus far, to no avail. Trials of anti-amyloid…

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