{"id":246233,"date":"2026-10-30T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:13","slug":"copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Copper drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer\u2019s proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lead author Dr Jae Pyun (left), senior author Professor Joseph Nicolazzo (right).<\/p>\n<p>Monash University researchers have found in laboratory experiments that a drug which delivers copper to the brain significantly reduces toxic Alzheimer\u2019s proteins and improves long-term spatial memory.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published today in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acschemneuro.6c00252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\" class=\"\"><em>ACS Chemical Neuroscience<\/em><\/a>, shows the compound Cu(ATSM) repairs a vital waste-clearing pump at the blood-brain barrier \u2013 unlocking a potential new avenue of therapeutics targeting neurovascular dysfunction, caused by one of the world\u2019s leading causes of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead author Dr Jae Pyun (left), senior author Professor Joseph Nicolazzo (right). Monash University researchers have found in laboratory experiments that a drug which delivers copper to the brain significantly reduces toxic Alzheimer\u2019s proteins and improves long-term spatial memory. The study, published today in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience, shows the compound Cu(ATSM) repairs a [\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-246233","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\/246233","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=246233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}