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  "textContent": "Alzheimer's disease is often measured in statistics: millions affected worldwide, cases rising sharply, costs climbing into the trillions. For families, the disease is experienced far more intimately. \"It's a slow bereavement,\" says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Nicholas Tonks, whose mother lived with Alzheimer's. \"You lose the person piece by piece.\"",
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