SCIENCE ALERT - The origins of Alzheimer's remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete inside brain cells.
Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with the build-up of two proteins in the brain: amyloid-beta and tau.
This new study ties those two together, offering a "unifying theory" that, according to the team of chemists at UC Riverside proposing it, resolves some conflicting ideas about Alzheimer's.