Can Stem Cells Be Used To Treat Alzheimer's Disease? Three Possible Avenues
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 18:40
in Health & Medicine
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most devastating illnesses that the human race has ever faced. It literally destroys the brain, which shrinks as a result over time (see image at left from Wikipedia).The toll of AD is not only measured in hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs and millions of deaths, but also in personal and family tragedy that comes with the severe loss of memory that accompanies it. read more
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