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Researchers find pathological signs of Alzheimer's in dolphins, whose brains are much like humans'

  • Written by Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi, Assistant Scientist, University of Florida
imageA bottlenose dolphin leaping from the ocean in Panama.Christian Wittman/Shutterstock.com

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the U.S. recently reported the discovery of pathological signs of Alzheimer’s disease in dolphins, animals whose brains are similar in many ways to those of humans.

This is the first time that these signs...

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