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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)

The Quanta Podcast

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The Amyloid Hypothesis and the Future of Alzheimer's Disease

Between 2002 and 2012, 48% of the Alzheimer's drugs under development were focused on amyloid beta. In 2018 Pfizer pulled out of Alzheimer's research. By 2017, 146 drug candidates for treating Alzheimer's disease had been deemed unsuccessful.

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