Study with worms provides intriguing results

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Professor Jessica Tanis and doctoral student Andy Lam examine tiny worms (C. elegans) under the microscope for signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: University of Delaware

Worms don’t wiggle when they have Alzheimer’s disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis’s lab at the University of Delaware.

In solving the mystery, Tanis and her team have yielded new clues into the potential impact of diet on Alzheimer’s, the dreaded degenerative brain afflicting more than 6 million Americans.

A few years ago, Tanis and her team began investigating factors affecting the onset and progression of…

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