Researchers Return to Alzheimer's Vaccines — VOA Learning English
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Researchers are renewing efforts to find Alzheimer’s disease treatments that remove harmful proteins from the brain. Such vaccines could possibly offer an easier and lower-cost choice for millions of people, several scientists and industry leaders say.
The brain-wasting disease causes thinking and memory problems.
The U.S. government website ClinicalTrials.gov shows that at least seven possible Alzheimer’s vaccines are in human testing or have completed such trials. The experimental treatments are designed to use the body’s natural defense system to destroy Alzheimer’s-linked proteins in the brain. The proteins are beta amyloid and tau.
The renewed interest in Alzheimer’s vaccines follows a…
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