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Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s

It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps stabilize neurons, but in Alzheimer’s disease, it begins to misfold and tangle inside neurons. It spreads across the brain forming toxic clumps…

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Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever

What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka “inflammaging” in humans? That’s the question Elaine Guevara, a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of life history and aging in primates, set out to understand. In newly published research on age-related inflammation in ring-tailed and sifaka lemurs, Guevara discovered that perhaps we should rethink…

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Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon warned European leaders they have a competitiveness problem and that they are currently “losing” the battle to rival the US and China.  “Europe has gone from 90…

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