Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One target is a rogue protein known as beta amyloid, which forms the plaques that fill the brain's memory centers; just two weeks ago scientists identified one of the enzymes that are key to its formation. Another is an abnormal variant of the tau protein, which is thought to...
Initially, advances in treatment will probably result in only modest gains. Clinicians will be able to delay onset by several years and lessen the severity of symptoms. But by 2025, control could come to resemble a cure. For Alzheimer's has something in common with other brain disorders such as...
Maybe that's not exactly the way pills will be dispensed 25 years from now, but you can be sure that at molecular biology's current pace, it will be something like that. By then scientists will have decoded the entire human genome--all 140,000 or so genes that...
That will have enormous practical consequences. Your genetic profile, recorded on a chip, will let doctors--or, more likely, their computerized diagnostic tools--determine your exact level of risk for a particular disease and which proteins and enzymes your body lacks. There will be no more wasteful trial and error...
"It will be a geriatric world, at least in wealthy countries, with at least 20% of the people 60 years or older," says Stanford chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to...