Mathew Blurton-Jones, University of California - Irvine (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

Mathew Blurton-Jones, University of California - Irvine

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UC Irvine neurobiologist Mathew Blurton-Jones helped find that increasing the production of the enzyme neprilysin, which breaks down amyloid-beta, led to lower activity in Alzheimer's disease brains.

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