Triad health system to study mice brains in Alzheimer's research

A five-year, $2.53 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will give Wake Forest Baptist Health researchers a leg up in defining early indicators of Alzheimer ’s disease.  The study will look at the way microscopic tubes in the brain deteriorate over time, a potential early indicator of Alzheimer’s. “Microtubules are message carriers within neurons that are very tightly bundled in a healthy brain,” said Kiran Solingapuram Sai, Ph.D. Sai, the p roject’s lead investigator, is…
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