Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
by svara on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:22AM
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You're right, I should have mentioned tau. But the viral link is the really big deal here that was overlooked for too long.
> It looks like you're part of the cabal!
I have no horse in this race ;) I only commented because the title seemed needlessly inflammatory to me. Everybody should just read the full article, like I wrote I think it's very good.
> In a sea of amyloid-focused grants, there are tiny islands of research on oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and, especially, a protein called tau.
The Wikipedia article you cite:
> On examining her brain, he found senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles [which are made of tau protein -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofibrillary_tangle]
What you actually wrote:
> In 1911, Alois Alzheimer found plaques in his dementia patient's brain. These plaques are what researchers would focus on for more than the next 100 years.
You omitted the tangles and played up the plaques. It looks like you're part of the cabal!