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New Research Could Reverse Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s Patients

Epigenetic Factors Your DNA sequence never changes. But the expression of your genes changes throughout your life, and the elements affecting these changes are known as epigenetic factors. Now, scientists believe they have identified an epigenetic factor that causes memory loss in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Their other claim is explosive: that they’ve found a way to reverse...

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New Chain of Clinics Will “Fill Your Veins” With Blood of Youths

Young Blood Ambrosia, the controversial chain of clinics offering transfusions of young people’s blood, has officially opened up shop in five U.S. cities. While the company’s original plan for a New York City clinic fell short, it now has locations in LA, San Francisco, Tampa, Omaha, and Houston, according to Business Insider — each of which will

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New Drug Trial Could Halt Alzheimer’s Memory Loss

Treatment Plan A new nationwide clinical trial is currently recruiting people with Alzheimer’s disease to see if a new drug can halt or slow down memory loss and other symptoms. The trial, called “T2 Protect AD,” involves 48 weeks of treatment and monitoring. Subjects will receive either a placebo or a drug called troriluzole, which has

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Treatment to Reverse Alzheimer’s Symptoms Moving to Human Trials

Remember, Remember A drug-free dementia reversal treatment is making the leap from animals to humans. In 2015, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) in Australia published the results of a study in which they successfully reversed the symptoms of dementia, a type of mental decline that most often manifests as Alzheimer’s disease, in animal models — without using

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Experts: Stem Cells and Robots Will Replace Many Invasive Surgeries

No More Cuts In 20 years, many now-common surgical procedures could be obsolete. And the ones that remain are likely to become less invasive as well, according to a groundbreaking report on the future of surgery by England’s Royal College of Surgeons. The report highlights the way that several emerging technologies — like surgical robots,

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An Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

Eye Contact Alzheimer’s is a ruinous brain disease that causes progressive memory loss. For years, we lacked a practical way to detect it — but new evidence suggests that a non-invasive eye scan could spot early signs of the condition. At the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, not one but two research teams presented

Health & Medicine

Americans Are Living Longer. That Will Mean More People With Alzheimer’s.

BURDEN OF CARE Alzheimer’s is a devastating brain disease. It doesn’t just rob sufferers of their ability to think, remember, and reason. It also places a massive burden on families, caregivers, and the economy. And as people in the United States live longer, far more of them will be stricken with the disease, according to a new report from

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Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

A NEW APPROACH TO BRAIN DISEASE There are something like 37 trillion cells in your body, each doing its designated task to keep you alive and healthy. But sometimes, some of those cells, particularly in our brains, simply become inert — these cells, called senescent cells, aren’t quite dead but they’re not performing their jobs, either.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs

AI-CEPTION Machine learning, for all the great things it can do for us, has a pretty big flaw: it’s data-hungry. To train a new algorithm, you need to feed it a huge pile of meticulously-labeled information so that it can learn to sort similar inputs on its own. If you have access to a giant

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A Researcher Is Offering a Prize to Anyone Who Can Prove a Germ Causes Alzheimer’s

ALTERNATE HYPOTHESIS Most researchers believe that Alzheimer’s disease is caused by amyloid plaques or protein tangles. But NPR reports that another theory has been percolating in the scientific community for decades: that the memory-ravaging illness is caused by an infectious microbe. And one advocate is putting up $1 million of his own money to anyone who can provide proof