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A key challenge with Alzheimer’s is there is no good mouse model for the disease. While some approximate the phenotype, it’s not clear that the disease model as commonly studied in mice matches well with mechanisms of the human disease. There’s some thinking in the field that this could be a key reason why so many treatments have appeared very promising in mice and haven’t panned out in humans.