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‘Nuwa mends the sky’ is a traditional Chinese myth where the goddess Nuwa smelted five colored-stones to patch up the sky and save all mankind. This story reflects how GV-971, a marine derived oligosaccharide, fills in the gap in the current Alzheimer's treatment via targeting a gut-brain axis. See page 787-803 by Xinyi Wang et al. for details.