{"id":16108,"date":"2015-08-14T02:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/universal-plaque-busting-drug-could-treat-various-brain-diseases-new-scientist"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:48:48","slug":"universal-plaque-busting-drug-could-treat-various-brain-diseases-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/universal-plaque-busting-drug-could-treat-various-brain-diseases-new-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Universal plaque-busting drug could treat various brain diseases \u2014 New Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-plaque-busting-drug-could-treat-various-brain-diseases-new-scientist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A universal therapy that targets mis-folded proteins is a very significant step forward if clinical trials in humans translate from animals. Obviously there is more work to be done but it this is the kind of technology we need in order to intervene against biological aging.<\/p>\n<p>It is not hard to see that a therapy like this followed up by another that regenerates the brain eg, the Conboy Lab work by promoting neurogenesis could be a way to repair and restore the brain to healthy function.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A drug that breaks up different types of brain plaque shows promising results in animals and could prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn27921-universal-plaque-busting-drug-could-treat-various-brain-diseases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A universal therapy that targets mis-folded proteins is a very significant step forward if clinical trials in humans translate from animals. Obviously there is more work to be done but it this is the kind of technology we need in order to intervene against biological aging. It is not hard to see that a therapy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64456,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions\/64456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}