Every 67 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's. The urgency to find a cure has spurred the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and other public and private research entities to fund simultaneous studies in hope of finding the key to ending Alzheimer’s. Here are some of the latest efforts.

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