Repurposed Cancer Drug Restores Brain Function in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease

Recently, a team of researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine discovered that a drug originally developed for the use of cancer therapy could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease (March 21, 2015 Annals of Neurology; click here for NIH story). The drug is called saracatinib, originally developed by the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. However, […]

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