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For Alzheimer's Patients, Bonds Are Not About Passion
(Source: USA Today) - Betty Proctor remembers the day she walked into her husband's nursing home and found him with another woman "all cuddled up in his arms." Her husband, John, had Alzheimer's. She knew it was the disease, but was devastated just the same.
Scientists Use Glowing Molecules to Identify Prions
(Source: Cordis News) - Prion diseases, such as BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease), scrapie (which affects sheep) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), occur when abnormally-folded infectious prions cause normally-folded proteins in the brain to become malformed. "Because prion strains may vary in their transmissibility to humans, strain discrimination is of keen interest for prion diagnostics and for public health."
Possible New Alzheimer's Gene Identified
(Source: Guteborg University) - Scientists at Guteborg University in Sweden report that a gene variant could be a new risk marker for Alzheimer's disease.
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