The biology of Alzheimer’s – and how we might find a cure

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  • 6 years ago
How does Alzheimer's disease work? Alzheimer's kills about 83,000 people a year and over 5 million people are afflicted with it. Lou Reese, the co-founder of start-up United Neuroscience, thinks that there's a cure on the horizon.

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