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Intel’s mass layoffs amped up considerably Friday evening with word that the company plans to lay off nearly 2,400 Oregon workers — nearly five times as many as it had reported earlier in the week. The chipmaker has been firing workers all week as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan seeks to streamline Intel’s operations and reduce spending. He’s responding to a …

Scientists have uncovered a new group of rogue proteins in the brain that could play a major role in triggering and worsening Alzheimer’s disease. Until now, researchers believed that clumps of amyloid and tau proteins were the main culprits behind the devastating cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer’s patients.  But a new study from Johns Hopkins University has identified more than 200 …