{"id":207949,"date":"2025-03-06T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/key-brain-discovery-could-revolutionize-alzheimers-treatment-rare-opportunity"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:14:45","slug":"key-brain-discovery-could-revolutionize-alzheimers-treatment-rare-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/key-brain-discovery-could-revolutionize-alzheimers-treatment-rare-opportunity","title":{"rendered":"Key brain discovery could revolutionize Alzheimer\u2019s treatment: \u2018Rare opportunity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-brain-discovery-could-revolutionize-alzheimers-treatment-rare-opportunity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/16\/health\/novel-approach-to-treating-alzheimers-disease-found-its-a-gas\/\">treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, the most common type of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1075621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers from Northwestern University suggest<\/a> that enhancing the brain\u2019s immune cells may better equip them to clear out harmful clumps of the toxic protein <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/01\/health\/alzheimers-disease-found-to-be-transmitted-through-this-medical-treatment-in-bombshell-study\/\">amyloid beta<\/a>, a hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study is highly novel because we had the rare opportunity to analyze one of the largest post-mortem brain cohorts of Alzheimer\u2019s patients treated with amyloid-targeting drugs \u2014 similar to those now approved by the FDA for Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d lead author Lynn van Olst said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common type of dementia. Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. Researchers from Northwestern University suggest that enhancing the brain\u2019s immune cells may better equip them to clear out harmful clumps of the toxic protein amyloid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207949","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\/207949","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}