New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer’s

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A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease—and also vaccinate against it—has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists.

Both the antibody-based treatment and the protein-based vaccine developed by the team reduced Alzheimer’s symptoms in mouse models of the disease. The research is published today in Molecular Psychiatry.

The work is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leicester, the University Medical Center Göttingen and the medical research charity LifeArc.

Rather than focus on the beta protein in plaques in the brain, which are commonly associated with Alzheimer’s…

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