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...cavity is still there.” The new study was ground-breaking partly because it has implication for the treatments of other neurodegenerative diseases, Krainc said. Krainc said that the accumulation of proteins is a “common theme” among all neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer??s and Parkinson’s diseases. The hope, he added, is to find more specific drugs that will ablate mutant proteins. —Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...
...predicted a vaccine within three years, and in 2000 the genome project was going to revolutionize medicine. While few stem cell promoters would promise, as did former Senator John Edwards, that persons in wheelchairs would be walking, researchers do encourage the expectation that cures for everything from diabetes to Alzheimer??s are in the offing...
...group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) have discovered that the plaques associated with Alzheimer??s disease may affect a type of nervous system cell called an astrocyte, providing new insight into the far-reaching effects of the disease as well as possible therapeutic targets. Astrocytes are star-shaped cells that make up almost half the volume of the brain, and were traditionally thought to be support cells. It is now known that they can transmit signals through transient increases in calcium levels. “Astrocytes are often thought...
...Harvard, are mapping neurons with a pioneering method, dubbed “brainbow” for its psychedelic appearance. Already, the technique—recently honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry—is shedding light on the development of the human mind, and how disorders such as Alzheimer??s and even anxiety alter the brain.“To get an idea of how the wiring of the brain changes, we have to figure out how things are wired,” Lichtman says. “Brainbow gives us an idea of how things...
Tanzi said his team will continue their family-based research, focusing on the newly identified genes, with the “long-term vision” of creating new therapies to control the progression of Alzheimer?...