Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered

Posted by timothy on Friday February 3, 2012 @03:54AM from the when-it's-all-greek-to-you dept.

smitty777 writes "Two separate studies by the Taub Institute and Harvard have discovered the pathway used by Alzheimer's Disease to spread through the brain. The studies indicate it's not a virus, but a distorted protein called Tau which moves from cell to cell. Further, the discovery 'may now offer scientists a way to move forward and develop a way to block tau's spread in Alzheimer's patients, said Karen Duff, a researcher at Columbia's Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's disease and co-author of one study published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. "It's enlightening for us because it now provides a whole other area for potential therapeutic impact," said Duff. "It's possible that you can identify the disease and intervene (with potential tau-blocking drugs) before the dementia actually sets in."'"

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Correlation to human greed by assemblerex · 2012-02-03 04:13 · Score: 0, Troll

I'd love to see if there's a relation to the amount of Alzheimer's vs the amount of animal byproducts we feed to food animals.
We already know brain wasting in the UK was tied to feeding cattle infected animal remains rendered into feed.