Accumulating mutations cause neuron loss in Alzheimer's - Boston Children's Answers - Boston Children's Discoveries

In people with Alzheimer's disease, neurons gain so many mutations that they can’t keep up with repairing them.

Alzheimers disease is marked by a loss of functional neurons in the brain. But what causes this loss? A new study reveals that people with Alzheimers have an abundance of newly acquired mutations in … [+3484 chars]

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