Treating Alzheimer's (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Treating Alzheimer's

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Developing non-pharmaceutical approaches is important since there are no existing drugs to slow or reverse the cognitive impairment in neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's. The ability to use infrared lasers to dissociate amyloid fibrils opens up a promising approach.

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Tokyo University of Science

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