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Kosik Lab Researchers Study Rare Alzheimers Phenomenon
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English - November 26, 2019 02:58 - 10 minutes - 9.95 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Over 5 million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer’s dementia. A medical case has arisen from a family in Columbia, where a woman with a genetic mutation which virtually guaranteed that she would develop early onset Alzheimers did not develop the disease until her 70s. Juliana Acosta-Uribe, a graduate student in the Kosik Lab, along with several other co-researchers, further investigated what could have caused this exception as well as what this could mean for Alzheimer therapy.
KCSB’s Caroline He has the story.