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Nature Medicine 12, 747–751 (1 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm0706-747

The amyloid code

Apoorva Mandavilli

In the Church of the Holy Amyloid, the reigning deity is a 42–amino acid protein, thought to be the key to the mysteries that underlie Alzheimer disease. Amyloid has many believers—and like any good religion, a few staunch heretics who question its supremacy.