Understanding a Protein's Role in Familial Alzheimer's Disease

School of Medicine have used genetic engineering of human induced pluripotent stem cells to specifically and precisely parse the roles of a key mutated protein in causing familial Alzheimer's disease , discovering that simple loss-of-function does not contribute to the inherited form of the neurodegenerative disorder.

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