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Alzheimer’s Disease Evading Patient Offers Clues on Breaking Amyloid, Tau Link

Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images When one member of a large Colombian family, plagued by Alzheimer’s disease for generations, evaded the disease (staying cognitively healthy into her 70s) despite inheriting the genetic mutation that caused her relatives to develop dementia in their 40s, researchers sought to understand why. The Colombian patient carried the presenilin-1...