Early Infections Prime the Brain for Alzheimer’s
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Summary
Can an infection in youth seed Alzheimer's in old age? FAU and TUM scientists investigate a "cellular long-term memory" in neurons and microglia, where damaged long-lived RNA molecules leave brain cells primed for neurodegenerative collapse.
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