{"id":223512,"date":"2025-10-16T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:12:43","slug":"new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours","title":{"rendered":"New Alzheimer\u2019s Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing the clumps and tangles associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease to be swept away.<\/p>\n<p>After just three drug injections, mice with certain genes that mimic Alzheimer\u2019s showed a reversal of several key pathological features.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of the first injection, the animal brains showed a nearly 45 percent reduction in clumps of amyloid-beta plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing the clumps and tangles associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease to be swept away. After just three drug injections, mice with certain genes that mimic Alzheimer\u2019s showed a reversal of several key pathological features. Within hours of the first injection, the animal brains showed a [\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-223512","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\/223512","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=223512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}