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...scramble among drug companies to be the first to find the critical enzyme. And it's easy to see why. "You can take the protease, put it in a test tube and keep adding chemicals until you find one that inhibits the enzyme," says Dr. Rudy Tanzi, a Harvard neurologist whose lab unraveled key aspects of the genetics of Alzheimer...
Team members such as Tanzi Shams '99, a transfer student from Rutgers, say they had been disappointed with the lack of opportunities for organized weight lifting at Harvard. Having teammates will motivate them to work out more, they say. And several praise the ambitious schedule...
...Rudolph E. Tanzi, an assistant professor of neurology and director of the lab of genetics and aging at MGH, cautioned against classifying APOE-4 as a cause of Alzheimer's based on the current research...
...fact, Tanzi said, APOE could simply be physically associated with another gene on another chromosome that acts to cause Alzheimer...
...others done on families hit by Alzheimer's suggest E4 raises the odds of getting the disease. For example, people with two E4 genes are eight to nine times as likely to have the disorder as those with two E3 genes. "Roses' genetic data are overwhelming," says Dr. Rudy Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital...