Category Archives: Research

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug

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Alzheimer’s trial

  • The trial: 200 people globally with a family history of Alzheimer’s
  • The drug: Targets amyloids that build up and create plaques in the brain, it binds to them and is flushed from the brain preventing brain damage
  • Who it can help: Initially potentially people with a genetic predisposition but hopefully people with Alzheimer’s generally, Parkinson’s disease and other kinds of dementia
    For more information: www.brainpet.org

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Check your lifestyle for Alzheimer’s risk patterns

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A team from the University of California, San Francisco, has crawled through thousands of Alzheimer’s studies, selected a few hundreds that had quality information and came up with the factors most correlated with Alzheimer’s.

Check the article for the list, you have this mostly under your own control!

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Can Frankenstein help Alzheimer’s?

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A near-complete human brain comparable with that of a five-week-old foetus has been grown in a laboratory dish.

The brain ‘organoid’ was created from reprogrammed skin cells and is about the size of a pencil eraser.

Scientists hope the lumpy mass of functioning nerve cells and fibres will prove to be a valuable research tool for non-animal testing of new drugs and investigating brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s.

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