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Sanders-Brown study: Long-read RNA sequencing reveals key gene expressions in Alzheimer's disease - EurekAlert


Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are working to develop a pre-symptomatic disease diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease. “While the need for better treatments is clear, such treatments will not be very meaningful if they are administered after symptoms have onset. By then, Alzheimer’s disease has been ravaging the brain for decades to the point the brain can no longer compensate for the extreme cellular death,” said Mark T. W. Ebbert, Ph.D., Sanders-Brown faculty and an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience.

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