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Genetic therapy may lower Alzheimer’s-causing tau protein: Study
The trial, led by Dr. Catherine Mummery, has used a ‘gene silencing’ technique for the first time in treating Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. A world-first trial at UCL and UCLH has found a new gene therapy for Alzheimer’s disease that is able to safely lower levels of the harmful tau protein known to cause the disease. The trial, led…