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Prothena rolls out preclinical data for anti-amyloid Alzheimer's candidate to rival...

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  • cafead   Jul 26, 2021 at 10:22: PM
via The build up of amyloid-beta in the brain has been a prime target of Alzheimer's drug developers, including Biogen with its controversial new drug Aduhelm, which was granted the go-ahead from the FDA in early June. Now Biogen competitor Prothena says its own monoclonal antibody binds to amyloid-beta with about 11 times more strength than Aduhelm (aducanumab).

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