The New Offensive on Alzheimer's Disease: Stop it Before it Starts

Elie Dolgin • February 16, 2017

The key to treating Alzheimer's disease is early intervention, before symptoms are evident and brain damage is too extensive. "That's how you stop the disease," says Rudy Tanzi, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You don't wait."

Continue reading the cover story from Newsweek.

‘Connectoids’ use microfluid channels to recapitulate and study neural connections.
By Elie Dolgin May 14, 2025
With organoids, assembloids and a growing bioengineering toolkit, scientists are pushing the limits of human brain models.
Picture of scientist handling mRNA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vaccine protesters.
By Elie Dolgin May 9, 2025
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.