The Giving Grove: how Kansas City’s free community orchards became a national model — 2026-10-23

Impact Vector: Good News · Oct 23, 2026 · 2m

## Short Segments Researchers have pinpointed a crucial spot where Alzheimer's protein tangles form, offering new hope for treatment strategies. Scientists at Northwestern University and UC Santa Barbara have identified a specific contact point on tau proteins where misfolding begins, a key process in Alzheimer's disease. This discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to drugs that target this site to slow the growth of tau tangles in the brain. In healthy brains, tau proteins stabilize nerve cells, but in Alzheimer's, they misfold and form…