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Down syndrome, like Alzheimer’s, is a double-prion disorder
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Down syndrome, like Alzheimer’s, is a double-prion disorder

by University of California, San Francisco PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: public domain The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the neurodegenerative disorder in their forties or fifties. A new study from researchers at...