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A Chemical From Car Tires May Be Linked to Alzheimer’s, New Study Suggests

Researchers used AI models to study how a tire-related pollutant may interact with Alzheimer’s-linked proteins.

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If at some point in your life you develop Alzheimer’s, you may one day be able to heap a fair share of the blame on your car tires. That isn’t a conclusion scientists are fully ready to make, but according to a new study published in Open Medicine, it’s a possibility.

The problem isn’t the tires themselves, but that a chemical in them, 6PPD, reacts with ozone in the air to create a chemical called 6PPD-quinone, or 6PPD-Q. Every........

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