MIT NewsBy David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
MIT researchers showed that the APOE4 gene variant suppresses molecular signaling needed for oligodendrocytes to myelinate neurons and also demonstrated a proof-of-concept fix.
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