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New Developments on the Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic Front — Part I

In July, we attended the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London. The big news at the meeting was on the diagnostics front.  In the aftermath of the recent string of trial failures, diagnostic tools have become a critical area of focus, in the hopes that patient diagnosis and selection can be improved.   Accurately diagnosing...

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The National Microbiome Initiative

On May 13, the White House announced the latest big science initiative: a pledge of a half billion dollars to study microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans and more. This initiative  — which includes $121 million in Federal funding over two years — builds on the NIH Human Microbiome Project, begun in 2007, as well...