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New Alzheimer's Nasal Spray Clears Toxic Tangles in Human Neurons And Mice (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I've heard that clearing the tangles really doesn't affect the trajectory of the disease?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Yeah, from the article "while many tau-based therapies show promise in animal models, their translation into effective medicine for humans 'has so far failed.'".