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The Protein That Promised a Cure - and Vanished from the Data
The Protein That Promised a Cure - and Vanished from the Data
Hope turned to doubt when pixel-for-pixel repeats in lab images and a single lab's dominance over the evidence underpinned a drug that enrolled over 400 people with Alzheimer's - so what happened to the missing verification that should have stopped human trials? Who knew about the data shifts, and why did a failed biomarker readout get reversed months later?
In this episode, we follow the path from a scaffolding protein called filamin A to a compound taken into human trials, tracing publications, funding, and the contested…
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