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Our news team covers important developments in Alzheimer research and related fields of biomedicine, basic science and technology. Updates on drug development are listed under Drug News. Archived stories can be retrieved through our News search interface. All stories are based on original reporting and writing by our news team unless otherwise indicated.

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