How Alzheimer's mutates the immune system

David Gate studies how neurodegenerative disease changes the immune system

And for people with Alzheimer's disease, some of the changes he and his colleagues have identified are at the genetic level - with one modification to T cells potentially leading to an abnormal inflammatory response in the brain. Now he thinks that understanding and targeting these changes could be a route to treating the disease.

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