Curing Alzheimer's: A Piece of the Puzzle
Jay Ingram
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Posted 09.23.2012
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Canada Living
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Infectious Disease,
Alzheimer's,
Prion,
Alzheimers Disease,
Prion-Related Diseases,
Brain,
Neurological Disorders,
Prion Disease,
Prions,
Neurological,
Canada Living News
Thirty years ago a scientist named Stan Prusiner coined a new word -- prion -- which turns out to be a protein molecule that's misfolded. In many neurodegenerative conditions, something triggers misfolding. If you can interrupt that, then you stop the formation of plaques. If you stop plaque formation in a human brain, you could prevent Alzheimer's, or at least delay it.
