Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as dementia, has become a global health challenge, and the economic and social burdens it brings are quite heavy. According to statistics, the number of dementia patients worldwide has reached nearly 50 million, and the number of new cases is about 10 million each year. In my country, the number of dementia patients is as high as tens of millions, ranking first

Alzheimer's disease, as the most representative neurodegenerative disease in the elderly population, has placed a significant burden on patients' families and even the entire society. Among the many genetic variants that affect the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease, the APOE gene is recognized as the strongest genetic risk factor. According to statistics, about 40% to 50% of Alzheimer's patie

Why are so many young people getting cancer now? What do the data on cancer rates among young people tell us? Mysteries and clues may lie in information collected generations ago. As the prevalence of many cancers among young people continues to rise, scientists and clinicians are looking to explain this phenomenon. Statistics from countries around the world show that the prevalence of more tha

Lewis C. Cantley, Director of the Meyer Center at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and Professor of Cancer Biomedical Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2013. He discovered the signaling pathway of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and elucidated its role in tumor growth, which is very important for understanding cancer and diabetes.