| Researchers find potential reason why women are more susceptible to Alzheimer’s Spectrum News: David Kang, professor at the School of Medicine, and Alexa Woo, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, discussed new research that suggests the mechanism for why women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer’s disease. “What we found is that an enzyme called USP11 is expressed at naturally higher levels in females compared to males and this increase in USP11 causes an increase in tau pathology and greater susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease,” Kang said. |
