Toxins from algal blooms may cause Alzheimer's-like brain changes

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 19:21 in Biology & Nature

A group of villagers on the Pacific island of Guam has offered some key insight into the role that an environmental toxin may play in brain changes that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. And scientists studying that neurotoxin appear to have found a possible antidote. In some Chamorro residents...

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