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SCOUT· 61%16m·2026-05-08·ScienceThe Strange Case Of The Man Immune To Alzheimer’s
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Episode 367 Some people are genetically destined to develop Alzheimer’s disease. But one man who carried the devastating mutation seems to have escaped it entirely - and scientists think it may be because of his job. Doug Whitney inherited the rare variant of a gene that should have caused early-onset Alzheimer’s in…
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