Alzheimer’s Drug Failure Leaves Scientists Seeking New Direction
For years, drugmakers have tried targeting a brain compound called beta amyloid. Not one of those attempts has worked.
A woman, suffering from Alzheimer's desease, walks in a corridor on March 18, 2011 in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIEN BOZON (Photo credit should read SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images)Photographer: AFP/AFP