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Published online 16 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020513-8
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Drug saps Alzheimer's
Optimism for chemical that destabilizes harmful protein build-ups.
Clinical studies will start within weeks on a new drug that may erode the protein clumps behind Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes.
In these diseases, proteins that are usually soluble fold abnormally into tightly packed deposits called amyloid that wreck internal organs.
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