RESEARCH NEWS 2014-04-25 Research News In Alzheimer’s brains, the axonal protein tau strays into dendritic spines and stirs up trouble at synapses. Researchers have called this a mislocalization, but a paper in the April 23 Journal of Neuroscience challenges this view, suggesting
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