Nobel discovery opens window onto Alzheimer's disease

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Nobel discovery opens window onto Alzheimer's disease

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-discovery-opens-window-onto-alzheimers-disease-170000216.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TZntfHKPAblszrq9JVWDkg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9Njk7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-06T170000Z_1_LYNXNPEA950P5_RTROPTP_2_NOBEL-PRIZE-MEDICINE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Professor John O'Keefe poses in his laboratory at University College London" align="left" title="Professor John O'Keefe poses in his laboratory at University College London" border="0" /></a>By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - The discovery of cells in the brain that act as the body's internal global positioning system, which won three scientists the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, opens an intriguing new window onto dementia. Since these spatial cells are among the first to be hit in Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia -- explaining why sufferers often lose their way -- understanding how they are degraded should shed important light on the disease process. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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