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Volume 48 Issue 9, September 2019

Animals for Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease is a growing burden that has been studied for years without clinical success. Long thought of as a somewhat monolithic neurodegenerative disorder, growing patient data suggests otherwise: every Alzheimer’s patient might be different. To better understand Alzheimer’s disease and identify how it can be treated—or prevented from developing in the first place—preclinical researchers are taking advantage of a variety of different animal models.

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