Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Cure Alzheimer's Fund touts research

By Bill Zlatos
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Research funded by a local foundation might hold promise toward new and better treatments of Alzheimer's disease, officials said.

The Cure Alzheimer's Fund, with offices Downtown and in Boston, gave $3 million to a team at Harvard Medical School in Boston, which combed the human gene map and found four more areas that affect the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Some of the genes, associated with the most common form of Alzheimer's, appear linked to.....read the whole story

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