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Which don't get Alzheimer's. Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate.
That said, this study is cause for cautious optimism. The mechanism they've targeted cleared symptoms in 'two of these mouse models: One carried multiple human mutations in amyloid processing; the other carried a human mutation in the tau protein. ' Mosreso, it does it by modulating NAD+, long a target of interest in AD. From the paper
As such it is not only of interest to sufferers of AD but the aging population in general.