{"id":74013,"date":"2017-12-01T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-discover-key-to-alzheimers-disease-in-our-brains"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:07","slug":"researchers-discover-key-to-alzheimers-disease-in-our-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-discover-key-to-alzheimers-disease-in-our-brains","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Discover Key to Alzheimer\u2019s Disease in Our Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-key-to-alzheimers-disease-in-our-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/alzheimer-treatments-alzheimers-disease-dementia-part1\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> and other neurodegenerative diseases are partially caused by the build-up of garbage due to a breakdown of the cellular housekeeping process known as <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/macromolecular-damage-aging-prematurely-part1-autophagy-series\/\">autophagy<\/a>. British scientists just discovered what may be the key to stopping this collapse in cellular housekeeping. [Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman<\/a>. This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com.\">LongevityFacts.com.<\/a><\/a> Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/redd.it\/77bpac\">Reddit<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+LongevityFacts\">Google+<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/longevityfacts\/\">Facebook.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at King\u2019s College London (KCL) discovered new mechanisms of <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cell-death-goes-bad-researchers-discover-role-cancer-inflammation-linked-diseases\/\">cell death<\/a> in neurodegenerative disorders, which may be involved in the leading causes of dementia, such as Alzheimer\u2019s and <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/parkinsons-alzheimers-coffee-improves-brain-health-says-researchers\/\">Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a>. The novel research was published Wednesday in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(17)31391-X\">Current Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the findings are expanded, the discovery could lead to new treatments for delaying the progression of previously incurable neurodegenerative conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/researchers-discover-alzheimers-disease-brains\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/researchers-discover-alzheimers-disease-brains\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurodegenerative diseases are partially caused by the build-up of garbage due to a breakdown of the cellular housekeeping process known as autophagy. British scientists just discovered what may be the key to stopping this collapse in cellular housekeeping. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on LongevityFacts.com. Follow us on Reddit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74013","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74043,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74013\/revisions\/74043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}