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    • Professor Ashley Bush

    Head of Oxidation Biology Group, Clinical Lead of the Mental Health Mission at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Professor of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Brain scan and blood test

    Sciences & Technology

    Space research helps find targets for early Alzheimer’s test

    Methods used to study asteroids and planets could be used in a new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – potentially before clinical symptoms develop

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    Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s disease during a pandemic

    While COVID-19 has changed the way people with Alzheimer’s disease can access care, it’s also led to innovation and collaboration

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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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