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  "id": 227449,
  "title": "Atomic view of Alzheimer's disease peptide could inform new drugs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/atomic-view-of-alzheimers-disease-peptide-could-inform-new-drugs",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-06T16:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-atomic-view-alzheimer-disease-peptide.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of a peptide in the brain known as amyloid beta. A new study published in Nature Communications on July 22 has uncovered the atomic structure of the peptide in its harmful form.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/mri-metric-identifies-early-multifactorial-white-matter-damage-in",
        "published": "2026-08-05T13:40:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "bioRxiv",
        "title": "Mechanisms of resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease via oligogenic modulation of rare variants in the entorhinal cortex",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/mechanisms-of-resilience-to-autosomal-dominant-alzheimers-disease-via",
        "published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}