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

The Quanta Podcast

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The Rosetta Stone for Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

Carol Jennings' father and several of her aunts and uncles had all been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in their mid-50s. Researchers sequenced the family's genes, searching for a shared mutation that could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the condition. As soon as she found it, Mary Christine Chatea Halla was the person doing the sequencing.

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