About 11% of the U.S. population 65 and older has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia that results in memory loss and cognitive impairment, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
And the World Health Organization predicts the number of people living with Alzheimer’s will grow by millions each year.
Despite decades of research, scientists don’t fully understand what causes the brain condition. And there is no known therapeutic treatment.
But a new study published recently in Nature Communications by a team of researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine suggests a key protein molecule plays a major role in the accumulation of brain cholesterol, triggering the development of Alzheimer’s.
The lab of Xin Qi, professor of physiology and biophysics at the School of Medicine, developed and patented a peptide inhibitor…
