Alzheimer; News from the web:

The Institute for Systems Biology is taking a swing at one of the most widespread and puzzling diseases in the United States: Alzheimer’s.

ISB along with Seattle startup Arivale, both founded by genomics pioneer Lee Hood, want to see if lifestyle coaching combined with biometric data can prevent the advancement of Alzheimer’s, or even reverse early symptoms of the disease.

The organizations are teaming up with Providence St. Joseph Health, the Pickup Family Neuroscience Institute and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian to conduct a 200-person, two-year clinical trial to test the approach. The trial is called Coaching for Cognition in Alzheimer’s (COCOA).

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