Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Could Hold Key to Cure
Some great research coming out of Stanford University. Here’s their press release, and a few news articles. The upshot is that “Brain cells called microglia chew up toxic substances and cell debris,...
View ArticleScientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues. Now, come...
From Nature: “Wyss-Coray formed a start-up company, Alkahest in Menlo Park, California, and in September 2014 it began a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial at Stanford, testing the...
View ArticleBrain Organoids
An interesting new way to study diseases of the brain. From MIT Tech Review: “A new method for growing human brain cells could unlock the mysteries of dementia, mental illness, and other neurological...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s strategies — ultrasound and repurposing new drugs
Two significant news hits on Alzheimer’s recently. One team in Australia is experimenting (on mice) with ultrasound to clear up plaque buildup and the other team (in the US) is using an already...
View ArticleObama’s BRAIN Initiative’s first study results
Scientists controlled a mouse’s behavior using a method called “DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs).” Not a great acronym (given the potential abuse for such a method),...
View ArticleNew protein injection reverses Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice in just one week
Note that the results are for mice only (so far). Human trials are coming soon. Here’s the University press release. And the news story. “Researchers have discovered that an injection of a protein...
View ArticleStroke survivors walk again after Stanford injects stem cells into brain
From the Telegraph: ““The remarkable recovery we saw in many of these chronic stroke patients was quite surprising,” said Prof Gary Steinberg, Chair of Neurosurgery at Stanford, who has spent 15 years...
View ArticleElderly discovered with superior memory and Alzheimer’s pathology
A super-interesting discovery: “New research on the brains of individuals 90 years and older who had superior memories until their deaths revealed widespread and dense Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles...
View ArticleScientists uncover potential driver of age- and Alzheimer’s-related memory loss
“Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made an important discovery toward the development of drugs to treat age-related memory loss in diseases like...
View ArticleThe Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s
Not surprising really, but good to remember. Put down the cupcakes! Here’s the story in the Atlantic. “A high-carb diet, and the attendant high blood sugar, are associated with cognitive decline.”
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