{"id":77657,"date":"2018-04-09T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-in-human-brain-cells-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2018-04-09T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:43:30","slug":"alzheimers-gene-neutralised-in-human-brain-cells-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-in-human-brain-cells-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s gene neutralised in human brain cells for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-in-human-brain-cells-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>S cientists have claimed an important breakthrough in the battle against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/03\/27\/alzheimers-memories-could-switched-back-implant\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> after neutralising the most significant gene responsible for the disease for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>A team in California successfully identified the protein associated with the high-risk apoE4 gene and then manage to prevent it damaging human neuron cells.<\/p>\n<p>The study could open the door to a potential new drug capable of halting the disease, however the researchers have urged caution because so far their compound has only been tried on collections of cells in a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/04\/09\/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-human-brain-cells-first-time\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/04\/09\/alzheimers-ge...irst-time\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S cientists have claimed an important breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimer\u2019s after neutralising the most significant gene responsible for the disease for the first time. A team in California successfully identified the protein associated with the high-risk apoE4 gene and then manage to prevent it damaging human neuron cells. The study could open the [\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-77657","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\/77657","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=77657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}