{"id":234614,"date":"2026-04-04T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-unifying-theory-may-explain-how-alzheimers-emerges-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:02:31","slug":"new-unifying-theory-may-explain-how-alzheimers-emerges-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-unifying-theory-may-explain-how-alzheimers-emerges-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Unifying Theory\u2019 May Explain How Alzheimer\u2019s Emerges in The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-unifying-theory-may-explain-how-alzheimers-emerges-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origins of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\"> Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete inside brain cells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with the build-up of two proteins in the brain: amyloid-beta and tau.<\/p>\n<p>This new study ties those two together, offering a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pnasnexus\/pgag034\">unifying theory<\/a>\u201d that, according to the team of chemists proposing it, resolves some conflicting ideas about Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of Alzheimer\u2019s remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete inside brain cells. Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with the build-up of two proteins in the brain: amyloid-beta and tau. This new study ties those two together, offering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}