Boosting protein garbage disposal in brain cells protects mice from Alzheimer's disease

Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

Gene therapy that boosts the ability of brain cells to gobble up toxic proteins prevents development of Alzheimer's disease in mice that are predestined to develop it, report researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre. They say the treatment - which is given just once - could potentially do the same in people at the beginning stages of the disease...

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