Wiggling Worms Suggest Link Between Vitamin B12 and Alzheimer’s; University of Delaware Research Yields New Clues Into Potential Impact of Diet on AD

Worms don’t wiggle when they have Alzheimer’s disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis’s lab at the University of Delaware (UD).  In solving the mystery, Dr. Tanis and her team have yielded new clues into the potential impact of diet on Alzheimer’s, the dreaded degenerative brain disease afflicting more than 6 million Americans.