{"id":243557,"date":"2026-09-03T01:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-damage-in-mice-reversed-with-just-two-injections"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:13:19","slug":"alzheimers-damage-in-mice-reversed-with-just-two-injections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-damage-in-mice-reversed-with-just-two-injections","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Damage in Mice Reversed With Just Two Injections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-damage-in-mice-reversed-with-just-two-injections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slowing the progression of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease is the goal of most existing treatments, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-alzheimers-treatment-strategy-reverses-cognitive-decline-in-mice\">reversing it<\/a> is much harder. That\u2019s because once neurons are lost, the adult brain lacks the ability to replace them.<\/p>\n<p>But new research, led by scientists at the University of South Carolina, has shown promise in regrowing neurons in brain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-an-organoid\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">organoids<\/a>, and restoring cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter just two injections, these mice became smarter,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scimex.org\/newsfeed\/nanoparticles-could-help-reduce-mental-decline-mouse-study-says\">says<\/a> Peisheng Xu, professor of pharmaceutics at the University of South Carolina and corresponding author of the new study, published in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celbio.2026.100575\">Cell Biomaterials<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowing the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease is the goal of most existing treatments, but reversing it is much harder. That\u2019s because once neurons are lost, the adult brain lacks the ability to replace them. But new research, led by scientists at the University of South Carolina, has shown promise in regrowing neurons in brain organoids, [\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-243557","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\/243557","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=243557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}