{"id":186857,"date":"2024-04-05T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/human-neuron-model-paves-the-way-for-new-alzheimers-therapies"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:24:53","slug":"human-neuron-model-paves-the-way-for-new-alzheimers-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/human-neuron-model-paves-the-way-for-new-alzheimers-therapies","title":{"rendered":"Human neuron model paves the way for new Alzheimer\u2019s therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-neuron-model-paves-the-way-for-new-alzheimers-therapies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have developed an innovative human neuron model that robustly simulates the spread of tau protein aggregates in the brain\u2014a process that drives cognitive decline in Alzheimer\u2019s disease and frontotemporal dementia. This new model has led to the identification of novel therapeutic targets that could potentially block tau spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have developed an innovative human neuron model that robustly simulates the spread of tau protein aggregates in the brain\u2014a process that drives cognitive decline in Alzheimer\u2019s disease and frontotemporal dementia. This new model has led to the identification of novel therapeutic targets that could potentially block tau spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186857","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\/186857","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}