Alzheimer’s Researcher Pushes Forward With Immunotherapy Trials Despite Setbacks In The Field – WBUR
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Alzheimer’s Researcher Pushes Forward With Immunotherapy Trials Despite Setbacks In The Field
WBUR For two decades, scientists have been studying how immunotherapies may help treat Alzheimer’s disease. The theory is that antibodies might trigger the brain to destroy a kind of protein that clumps in the brain of patients. The clumps are known as beta … |
MedPage Today |
Rewired Olympic Brains; Gene Therapy Concerns; Memory Boost from Implant
MedPage Today Building new cerebral maps and subduing reflexes: here’s how Olympic ice skaters rewire their brains to execute complex routines. (Scientific American). Sandoz’s generic form of glatiramer acetate for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, sold as … |
STAT |
Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight AIDS?
STAT “Gene therapy techniques have advanced greatly,” said Dr. Otto Yang of the UCLA AIDS Institute, one place working on this. “A lot of people are thinking it’s the right time to go back.” They include Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute … Gene therapy could hold key to improving Aids treatment and beating devastating virusThe Independent Can gene therapy be used to fight the AIDS virus?KHQ Right Now Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Fight HIVIosco County News Herald |
Science Daily |
Clues to aging found in stem cells‘ genomes
Science Daily Stem cells that produce sperm use a genetic trick to stay perpetually young across generations, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Yukiko Yamashita and colleagues have discovered. Certain sections of the fruit fly genome get shorter … |