New research capitalizing on open science data from #NIH ’s AMP-AD suggests that viral species, particularly herpesviruses, may play a role in #Alzheimer ’s disease. https://t.co/0HvqbCzsdJ — Francis S. Collins (@NIHDirector) June 21, 2018 From the New York Times: Dr. Dudley said he is unsure whether many mainstream Alzheimer’s researchers will endorse the virus idea anytime soon. “It’s very unpopular,” he said. “I’m sure there’s a lot of people who are secretly unhappy about it.” Still, he said, Alzheimer’s researchers “come up to me at conferences and say in hushed tones, ‘Oh, I also have a data set that shows viruses, but I’m afraid to publish it. ’” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/health/alzheimers-virus-herpes.html Multiscale Analysis of Independent Alzheimer’s Cohorts Finds Disruption of Molecular, Genetic, and Clinical Networks by Human Herpesvirus https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30421-5 Robust analysis points to HHV-6A as pot...