Word: treating
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...amyloid plaques, in the brains of affected patients. Scientists from Elan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company headquartered in Ireland, reported they had produced a vaccine that could prevent plaques from forming and dissolve existing ones in the brains of mice. They speculated that a similar approach might be used to treat people...
...experiments were genetically engineered to produce amyloid plaques, but they don't exhibit any of the other telltale signs of Alzheimer's. Indeed, scientists aren't sure whether plaques are a cause or an effect of the disease. A vaccine that removes plaques in mice could still fail to treat the underlying disease in people...
Since I've never been to the museum, I can't argue with Sofen's claim that they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...
Since I've never been to the museum, I can't argue with Sofen's claim that they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...
...this any way to treat a serial killer? Marie Noe has confessed to suffocating eight of her infant children between 1949 and 1968, but last week a Philadelphia judge sentenced her to 20 years' probation, under a plea bargain. Noe will also undergo psychiatric treatment to help researchers understand why mothers kill their babies. Isn't this just a slap on the wrist...