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Alzheimer’s disease remains one of the biggest medical and socio-economic challenges for our aging society. The disease places a tremendous burden on both individual patients and their caring families. The most common form of Alzheimer’s disease is strictly based on age with no clear-cut family history, but other types of the disease exist such as rare, genetic forms that appear early in one’s life. Despite huge efforts in both basic and clinical research there is no causal Alzheimer’s therapy currently available or in immediate sight.
This two-part event on Alzheimer’s disease will focus largely on a novel approach involving autophagy, a cellular mechanism that only recently has been linked to the disease’s development….
