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Research Roundup: Watching diseases in real-time as they unfold
Peering into the brains of live transgenic mice (literally) with microscopes, MGH researchers, led by Bradley Hyman, were able to “watch” the formation of amyloid plaques—the clumps of protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease—and found that the plaques form more quickly than first thought—within a day, according to their paper in this week’s Nature.
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