Alzheimer’s study controversy: What does it mean for future research?

(Corrie Pelc/ Medical News Today) — A now-seminal study published in 2006 provided evidence that the toxic accumulation of a protein called beta-amyloid in the brain was tied to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Recently, an assistant professor from Vanderbilt University suggested that some of the images in this study were manipulated by the authors. What does all of this mean?

In 2006, a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota published a dementia-related study titled in the journal Nature called “A specific amyloid-β [beta-amyloid] protein assembly in the brain impairs memory.” The study provides evidence supporting a specific protein clump in the brain, known as beta-amyloid, as a cause for Alzheimer’s disease. (…)