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Could it be that Alzheimer’s disease stems from the toxic remnants of the brain’s attempt to fight off infection?

 

Provocative new research by a team of investigators at Harvard leads to this startling hypothesis, which could explain the origins of plaque, the mysterious hard little balls that pockmark the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.

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