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    • Dr Scott Ayton

    Head of Translational Neurodegeneration laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Deputy Director, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, and Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    An unexpected find opens a new way to regulate blood pressure

    In what could be a new pathway for drug therapies to treat hypertension, a team of brain researchers have discovered that zinc plays a key role in lowering blood pressure

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    Health & Medicine

    ‘Rusty’ brains linked to Alzheimer’s

    The discovery that high iron levels in the brain can lead to the onset of the devastating disease may pave the way for a treatment

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