{"id":29899,"date":"2016-09-06T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-drug-clears-abnormal-brain-proteins-tied-to-alzheimers"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:43","slug":"new-drug-clears-abnormal-brain-proteins-tied-to-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-drug-clears-abnormal-brain-proteins-tied-to-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"New Drug Clears Abnormal Brain Proteins Tied to Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-clears-abnormal-brain-proteins-tied-to-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new investigational drug can dramatically reduce the amount of amyloid beta plaque, the tangled clumps of proteins that form in the brains of Alzheimer\u2019s patients, according to a new early study of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The drug works by spurring the immune system to recognize and clear the plaques.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that\u2019s a hint of efficacy,\u201d study co-author Dr. Alfred Sandrock, a neurologist and an executive vice president at Biogen, said during a news briefing. \u201cWe believe that needs to be confirmed with further studies.\u201d Biogen is the Cambridge, Massachusetts, company that funded the trial and applied to patent the drug. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/12916-10-facts-human-brain.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10 Things You Didn\u2019t Know About the Brain<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/drug-clears-abnormal-brain-proteins-tied-alzheimers-013326691.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/drug-clears-abnormal-brain-protei...26691.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new investigational drug can dramatically reduce the amount of amyloid beta plaque, the tangled clumps of proteins that form in the brains of Alzheimer\u2019s patients, according to a new early study of the drug. The drug works by spurring the immune system to recognize and clear the plaques. \u201cWe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29899","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\/29899","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49921,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions\/49921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}