{"id":194792,"date":"2024-08-19T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:23:23","slug":"alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of a cure for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease\"><em>Science<\/em> magazine<\/a> reported that a key <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/doi:10.1038\/nature04533\">2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer\u2019s, may have been based on fabricated data.<\/p>\n<p>One year earlier, in June 2021, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers\/aducanumab-marketed-aduhelm-information\">US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab<\/a>, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer\u2019s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies. In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer\u2019s, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194792","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\/194792","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}