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  "path": "/news/2026-03-harmless-peptide-linked-alzheimer-disease.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T17:20:01.000Z",
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  "textContent": "While companies developing drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease have spent decades and many billions of dollars targeting amyloid beta due to its role in clogging patients' brains with harmful deposits, a biochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says the peptide has a smaller, overlooked \"cousin\" that could also be neurotoxic.",
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