{"id":214339,"date":"2025-05-20T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/computational-strategy-reveals-potential-new-targets-for-alzheimers-drugs"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:17:28","slug":"computational-strategy-reveals-potential-new-targets-for-alzheimers-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/computational-strategy-reveals-potential-new-targets-for-alzheimers-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Computational strategy reveals potential new targets for Alzheimer\u2019s drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-strategy-reveals-potential-new-targets-for-alzheimers-drugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study revealed genes and cellular pathways that haven\u2019t been linked to Alzheimer\u2019s before, including one involved in DNA repair. Identifying new drug targets is critical because many of the Alzheimer\u2019s drugs that have been developed to this point haven\u2019t been as successful as hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Working with researchers at Harvard Medical School, the team used data from humans and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/fruit+flies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fruit flies<\/a> to identify cellular pathways linked to neurodegeneration. This allowed them to identify additional pathways that may be contributing to the development of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study revealed genes and cellular pathways that haven\u2019t been linked to Alzheimer\u2019s before, including one involved in DNA repair. Identifying new drug targets is critical because many of the Alzheimer\u2019s drugs that have been developed to this point haven\u2019t been as successful as hoped. Working with researchers at Harvard Medical School, the team used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214339","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}