TL;DR: > Bhaskar and his team started to test the vaccine on mice. It has not yet been shown if it works in people. > She said the vaccine targets a specific p

TL;DR: > Bhaskar and his team started to test the vaccine on mice. It has not yet been shown if it works in people. > She said the vaccine targets a specific protein known as tau that's commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. > "These antibodies seem to have cleared (out) pathological tau. Pathological tau is one of the components of these tangles that we find in the brains of patients with Alzheimers disease," she explained. The response lasted for months, according to UNM.