Last year's failure of Eli Lilly's drug semagacestat in late-stage clinical trials was the latest in a long line of setbacks for novel Alzheimer's therapies. But advances in imaging and biomarker identification are providing added impetus to ongoing drug development. Gunjan Sinha reports.
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Sinha, G. Peering inside Alzheimer's brains. Nat Biotechnol 29, 384–387 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1863
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