Good news for about 30 million people afflicted with Alzheimer’s worldwide and their families and carers: ‘Rare genetic variant suggests a cause and treatment for cognitive decline’, Nature News, July 11, 2012:
http://www.nature.com/news/gene-mutation-defends-against-alzheimer-s-disease-1.10984
In Preventing Alzheimer’s, Mutation May Aid Drug Quest, NYT, July 11, 2012 (a paper titled ‘Clinical and Biomarker Changes in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease’ published in The New England Journal of Medicine and referred to in the NYT article can be downloaded as a pdf file ‘for personal use’ from the link in the NYT article or from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1202753?query=featured_home):
Scientists have assembled a ‘timeline’ of the unseen progress of Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear, BBC News: