Boston Globe story focuses on Cure Alzheimer's Fund study that shows mice given an anesthetic widely used in surgery on people suffered changes to their brains similar to the damage found in Alzheimer's disease. The results by researchers from Dr. Rudy Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital was published  in the online Annals of Neurology. The results need to be tested in humans, the authors caution, but the findings raise questions about administering this kind of anesthesia to elderly patients with or without Alzheimer's.

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Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Dr. Sam Gandy and Dr. Rudy Tanzi discuss the importance and impact of the promising progress on the latest generation of Alzheimer's drug treatments in a CNN Money story.

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Dr. Rudy Tanzi and his colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified about 70 genes containing variants that either confer risk, or protect against, Alzheimer's disease in  the Alzheimer's Genome Project™ (AGP).

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An article in the July 31st Economist on latest advances in Alzheimer's research being presented at the International Azheimer's Disease Conference in Chicago features the Cure Alzheimer's Fund ground breaking Alzheimer's Genome (AGP) project to map all the genes for the disease.

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