{"id":212966,"date":"2025-05-01T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/live-human-brain-tissue-reveals-how-alzheimers-linked-protein-damages-connections"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:28:10","slug":"live-human-brain-tissue-reveals-how-alzheimers-linked-protein-damages-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/live-human-brain-tissue-reveals-how-alzheimers-linked-protein-damages-connections","title":{"rendered":"Live human brain tissue reveals how Alzheimer\u2019s-linked protein damages connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/live-human-brain-tissue-reveals-how-alzheimers-linked-protein-damages-connections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer\u2019s can stick to and damage the connections between brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>Small pieces of healthy <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+brain+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain tissue <\/a>\u2014collected during routine neurosurgery operations\u2014were exposed to the protein, known as amyloid beta.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike when subjected to a normal form of the protein, the brain tissue did not attempt to repair damage caused by the toxic form of amyloid beta, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer\u2019s can stick to and damage the connections between brain cells. Small pieces of healthy human brain tissue \u2014collected during routine neurosurgery operations\u2014were exposed to the protein, known as amyloid beta. Unlike when subjected [\u2026]<\/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-212966","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\/212966","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=212966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}