(The New York Post)
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease.
Prior to last week, little was known about why people got the memory disease, and treatments seemed far off.
But, for the first time, researchers at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego figured out the underlying cause of the disease — and a surprisingly simple way to treat it.
By comparing brain samples of seven people who had Alzheimer’s and six who didn’t, researchers were able to show that the genetic blueprint of people with Alzheimer’s changes dramatically as they’re developing the disease, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Read more