Today’s Solutions: August 16, 2026

An Israeli research professor, heading an international team of scientists, has discovered a way to inhibit the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Monday. Dr. Shira Knafo, head of the Molecular Cognition Laboratory at BioCruces Health Research Institute in the Basque country, was able to do this by studying the plasticity of the brain, fundamental to learning and memory. According to a paper she and her team published last month…

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