Alzheimer’s Disease Reversed in Mouse Model

With a large swath of the population entering its senior years, the number of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cases are expected to skyrocket, placing a tremendous burden on the healthcare system. Yet, a glimmer of hope may have just emerged as investigators from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute (CCLRI) report that gradually depleting an enzyme called BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of mice with AD, subsequently improving the animals' cogniti