{"id":88751,"date":"2019-03-18T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/scientists-clear-alzheimers-plaque-from-mice-using-only-light-and-sound"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:22:35","slug":"scientists-clear-alzheimers-plaque-from-mice-using-only-light-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/scientists-clear-alzheimers-plaque-from-mice-using-only-light-and-sound","title":{"rendered":"Scientists \u2018Clear\u2019 Alzheimer\u2019s Plaque From Mice Using Only Light And Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-clear-alzheimers-plaque-from-mice-using-only-light-and-sound3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clumps of harmful proteins that interfere with brain functions have been partially cleared in mice using nothing but light and sound.<\/p>\n<p>Research led by MIT has found strobe lights and a low pitched buzz can be used to recreate brain waves lost in the disease, which in turn remove plaque and improve cognitive function in mice engineered to display <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>-like behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a little like using light and sound to trigger their own brain waves to help fight the disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astonishing-new-study-treats-alzheimer-s-in-mice-with-a-light-and-sound-show\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astonishing-new-study-treats-al...sound-show<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clumps of harmful proteins that interfere with brain functions have been partially cleared in mice using nothing but light and sound. Research led by MIT has found strobe lights and a low pitched buzz can be used to recreate brain waves lost in the disease, which in turn remove plaque and improve cognitive function in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88751","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\/88751","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}