
Medicine
A New Idea about What Triggers Alzheimer's
Changes in brain cells’ DNA may be responsible—and if so, medicines already developed for other diseases might be used to treat it
Jerold Chun is professor and senior vice president for neuroscience drug discovery in the Neuroscience and Aging Research Center at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute .
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