Microscopic metals in Alzheimer’s patients’ brain
In a collaboration of three universities, scientists have discovered tiny deposits of elemental, uncharged iron and copper in postmortem brains samples from two people who had Alzheimer’s disease. These highly reactive particles of metals appear to be stabilized within the beta-amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.
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