Tangles to Tau to Treatment
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A major breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has been revealed by scientists at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago, Illinois. An international clinical trial sponsored by TauRx Therapeutics has indicated for the first time that it appears to be possible to substantially reduce the progression of Alzheimer’s by targeting the neurofibrillary tangles originally discovered in 1907 by Alois Alzheimer.
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