{"id":204311,"date":"2025-01-22T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/fighting-alzheimers-by-helping-neurons-consume-proteins"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:29:22","slug":"fighting-alzheimers-by-helping-neurons-consume-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/fighting-alzheimers-by-helping-neurons-consume-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Alzheimer\u2019s by Helping Neurons Consume Proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fighting-alzheimers-by-helping-neurons-consume-proteins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/acel.14490\">kinesin family member 9 (KIF9), a protein that diminishes with aging, is instrumental in allowing cells to consume harmful proteins<\/a> and fights Alzheimer\u2019s in a mouse model.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Consuming amyloids before they become a problem<\/b><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that kinesin family member 9 (KIF9), a protein that diminishes with aging, is instrumental in allowing cells to consume harmful proteins and fights Alzheimer\u2019s in a mouse model. Consuming amyloids before they become a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204311","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}