Over 5 million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer’s dementia. A medical case has arisen from a family in Columbia, where a woman with a genetic mutation which virtually guaranteed that she would develop early onset Alzheimers did not develop the disease until her 70s. Juliana Acosta-Uribe, a graduate student in the Kosik Lab, along with several other co-researchers, further investigated what could have caused this exception as well as what this could mean for Alzheimer therapy.

KCSB’s Caroline He has the story.