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Scottish scientists announce brain disease breakthrough

Scots scientists have helped to unlock a secret of the brain that could lead to drug treatments for millions of people living with conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease and autism.

Scientists from Edinburgh University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, discovered a collection of 1461 proteins that account for more than 130 brain diseases.