ThinkBlog

See the Slashdot post here.

Props to grammar fascist for the report:

“The AP wire reports that Japanese medical researchers have developed a DNA-based vaccine that reduces the brain plaque beta amyloid without the severe brain inflammation that plagued successes in 2002. From the story ‘The deposits have been cut by between 15.5 percent and 38.5 percent in mice, with no major side effects, researchers said Monday in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences […] If all goes well, this type of treatment might be available for people in six or seven years, [lead researcher Yoh Matsumoto] said.’”

(The head scientist in the psycholinguistics lab in which I’ve been working for the past year and a half is in the midst of some major studies on Alzheimer’s and language processing, so this is a topic near and dear to us all in the lab. Not to mention that I’m more scared of Alzheimer’s than I am of Parkinson’s.)

See the Slashdot post here.

Props to grammar fascist for the report:

“The AP wire reports that Japanese medical researchers have developed a DNA-based vaccine that reduces the brain plaque beta amyloid without the severe brain inflammation that plagued successes in 2002. From the story ‘The deposits have been cut by between 15.5 percent and 38.5 percent in mice, with no major side effects, researchers said Monday in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences […] If all goes well, this type of treatment might be available for people in six or seven years, [lead researcher Yoh Matsumoto] said.’”

(The head scientist in the psycholinguistics lab in which I’ve been working for the past year and a half is in the midst of some major studies on Alzheimer’s and language processing, so this is a topic near and dear to us all in the lab. Not to mention that I’m more scared of Alzheimer’s than I am of Parkinson’s.)