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Studies shed light on Alzheimer’s spread

By New York Times

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  February 02, 2012

Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies find. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau.

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