The Good And The Bad Of A Potential Alzheimer's Target

Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 22:14 in Biology & Nature

Research in fruit flies has shown that enhancing the production of a protein called neprilysin can reduce the formation of plaques and neuron death associated with Alzheimer's, at the expense of reducing the flies' lifespan.

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