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Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: An extraordinarily promising new technique using ultrasound to clear the toxic protein clumps thought to cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease is moving to the first phase of human trials next year. The innovative treatment has proven successful across several animal tests and presents an exciting, drug-free way to potentially battle dementia. The ultrasound treatment was first developed back in 2015 at the University of Queensland. The initial research was working to find a way to use ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier with the goal of helping dementia-battling antibodies better reach their target in the brain. However, early experiments with mice surprisingly revealed the targeted ultrasound waves worked to clear toxic amyloid protein plaques from the brain without any additional therapeutic drugs. The new announcement regarding the upcoming move to human trials is underpinned by a large funding injection from the Australian government helping accelerate the treatment's development. The first stage is a phase 1 safety trial, kicking off later in 2019, to explore the safety profile of the treatment in human subjects suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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How is it that you don't understand that Trump, regardless of guilt, will never go to prison?
The moment he was indicted Pence would pardon him. The constitution contains no provision for overriding a pardon, so it would be permanent. Trump would have a 100% clean record and couldn't be charged with anything prior to the moment of the pardon.
This has precedent to support it. Ford pardoned Nixon. Nixon was guilty as hell, but he couldn't be charged with anything.
Your continued rants about prison only serve to show you are absolutely delusional and out of touch with the real world.
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Congratulations, you're pushing people to encrypt entirely.