This alien-like appendage is the proboscis, or mouth, of a common housefly (Musca domestica) shown at 40-times magnification. The fifth-place image was captured by Oliver Dum from Medienbunker Produktion in Germany.
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Anti-amyloid drugs likely provide no "clinically meaningful" effects for people with Alzheimer's, the authors concluded.
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The blood biomarker p-tau217 has "shown the most promise in detecting Alzheimer's in the brain," researchers of a new study say.
WashU researchers have created a model that can seemingly predict a person's symptoms of Alzheimer's within a few years.