Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs

D ementia looks likely to dominate old age in the 21st century. A study in this week’s Nature Medicine reckons the number of Americans developing it each year will rise from 500,000 in 2020 to 1m in 2060. And though drugs that have some effect on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia’s most common manifestation, have recently been assessed in America and Britain, not everyone is convinced.

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