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Brain Implants Relieve Alzheimer's Damage

Posted by samzenpus on from the wired-reflexes-next dept.

Genetically engineered cells implanted in mice have cleared away toxic plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. The animals were sickened with a human gene that caused them to develop, at an accelerated rate, the disease that robs millions of elderly people of their memories. After receiving the doctored cells, the brain-muddling plaques melted away. If this works in humans, old age could be a much happier time of life.

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  1. what so horrifying about it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You don't feel any "suffering", and even if you did,you wouldn't remember it.

  2. Being betrayed by bush and company.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is a lot worse

    Some of us will not live to see an old age because of their present day actions..

  3. Breast Implants Relieve Alzheimer's Damage? by jmitchel!jmitchel.co · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What a Country!