{"id":137196,"date":"2022-03-21T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/mutation-protecting-against-alzheimers-edited-into-human-cells"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:24:17","slug":"mutation-protecting-against-alzheimers-edited-into-human-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/mutation-protecting-against-alzheimers-edited-into-human-cells","title":{"rendered":"Mutation protecting against Alzheimer\u2019s edited into human cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mutation-protecting-against-alzheimers-edited-into-human-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treating brain diseases is also always difficult because of something called the \u201cblood-brain barrier.\u201d This wall of cells is designed to prevent toxins and pathogens from getting from the blood into the brain \u2014 but it also makes it hard to get treatments <em>into<\/em> the brain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>People with the Icelandic mutation are five times more likely to reach their 85 birthday without an Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Icelandic variant:<\/strong> Scientists have identified a couple of differences between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/health\/what-happens-brain-alzheimers-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brains<\/a> of people with Alzheimer\u2019s and those of healthy people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treating brain diseases is also always difficult because of something called the \u201cblood-brain barrier.\u201d This wall of cells is designed to prevent toxins and pathogens from getting from the blood into the brain \u2014 but it also makes it hard to get treatments into the brain. People with the Icelandic mutation are five times more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}