Alzheimer's 2020

A recent article reports that the Alzheimer's Association has awarded three 2020 Zenith Fellowships for research in treating or preventing Alzheimer's.

One project involves worldwide investigation into a gene that may lessen the risk of developing Alzheimer's.

Another focuses on the prevention of nerve cell death.

The final award funds the exploration of ultrasound to improve memory.

Read the article here: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191102/Alzheimers-Associations-2020-Zenith-Fellows-awards-support-new-approaches-to-treatment.aspx

UK Tests New Drug for Alzheimer's

The United Kingdom is beginning a human study of a treatment that may reverse Alzheimer's. The drug, ORY-2001, which was successfully tested on mice, repairs certain DNA.
 

You can read more about the trial here:

https://www.medindia.net/news/first-human-trials-of-alzheimers-drug-179790-1.htm

 

Connection between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's

Scientists are attempting to learn more about Alzheimer's by studying and testing patients with Down syndrome.

The genetic disorder, Down syndrome, is related genetically with Alzheimer's.  Persons with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome 21.

Chromosome 21 contains the gene that is responsible for the "sticky plaques" found in Alzheimer's patients.

Read the NPR report here:  http://n.pr/1DZgrxi