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Rhesus macaques experience an aging process similar to people’s. Goddard Photography/E+ via Getty Images

Expanding Alzheimer’s research with primates could overcome the problem with treatments that show promise in mice but don’t help humans

Agnès Lacreuse, UMass Amherst; Allyson J. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Amanda M. Dettmer, Yale University

Nonhuman primates like rhesus monkeys share certain characteristics with people that may make them better study subjects than mice for research on neurodegenerative diseases.

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