"We feel pretty good in autism these days, " says consortium founder Joseph Buxbaum, director of Mount Sinai's Seaver Autism Center.

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"It's not just in your liver anymore, it's everywhere, " Buxbaum says.

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Friedhoff and Buxbaum have shown two things: First, they showed that lovastatin could prevent cells from making beta amyloid in the test tube in doses that could be realistically given to patients.

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Friedhoff and Buxbaum list two reasons.

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