{"id":212902,"date":"2025-04-30T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-live-human-brain-cell-test-reveals-protein-role-in-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:21:54","slug":"new-live-human-brain-cell-test-reveals-protein-role-in-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-live-human-brain-cell-test-reveals-protein-role-in-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"New live human brain cell test reveals protein role in Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-live-human-brain-cell-test-reveals-protein-role-in-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists led by Dr Claire Durrant (UK DRI at Edinburgh) have used living human brain tissue to show for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer\u2019s can stick to and damage synapses, the connections between brain cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists led by Dr Claire Durrant (UK DRI at Edinburgh) have used living human brain tissue to show for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer\u2019s can stick to and damage synapses, the connections between brain cells.<\/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-212902","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\/212902","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=212902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}