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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Participate in an Alzheimer’s study

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80% of research studies fail to attract enough participants. Ready to help us change that?

Find Alzheimer’s prevention studies and trials taking place near you.

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New Alzheimer’s Research at the University of New Mexico

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Researchers at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center say they are getting closer to a vaccine that could someday rescue people from Alzheimer’s.

Although still years away, the hope is it could treat or even prevent the disease, and at a lower cost than other potential cures being researched.

Assistant professor Kiran Bhaskar and his team have developed a vaccine that restores cognition in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer’s disease. It also reverses changes in their brains that indicate the presence of the disease.

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