Hannah Fry: I lost my dad to Alzheimer’s. New research into its origins is amazing
New Scientist · Hannah Fry ·
My lovely father died of Alzheimer's last year, and since then, I've been digging into the disease to try to understand what happened to him. I was astonished to discover that scientists think it may start in the nose, says New Scientist's new columnist, Professor Hannah Fry
I was sitting in a conference in August, drifting as I so often do between listening to what was on stage and pretending to be doing important work on my laptop (by which I mean sending memes on WhatsApp).
All of a sudden, from the stage, the renowned biologist Aviv Regev came out with a sentence that made every single person in the room sit up and pay attention: “Of course,” she said, “we now know that Alzheimer's starts in the nose.”
I’m sorry, what? Starts in the nose? I didn't know Alzheimer's starts in the nose.
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