Alzheimer's disease breakthrough as new drug clears toxic proteins from brains of patients An antibody that can almost completely clear the visible signs of Alzheimer’s disease from the brain has been discovered in a breakthrough that left one scientist “trying not to get too excited”.
Researchers scanned the brains of people with the degenerative condition as they were given doses of the drug, which is based on an immune cell taken from the blood of elderly people aged up to 100 who showed no signs of the disease.
After a year, virtually all the toxic “amyloid plaques” that build up in Alzheimer’s patients appeared to have gone from the brains of those given the highest doses of the antibody. The Independent
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Researchers scanned the brains of people with the degenerative condition as they were given doses of the drug, which is based on an immune cell taken from the blood of elderly people aged up to 100 who showed no signs of the disease.
After a year, virtually all the toxic “amyloid plaques” that build up in Alzheimer’s patients appeared to have gone from the brains of those given the highest doses of the antibody. The Independent
See also:
- The antibody aducanumab reduces Aβ plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (abstract) Nature
- Alzheimer's drug study gives 'tantalising' results BBC News
- Revolutionary drug 'may stop Alzheimer from ever developing' The Daily Mail
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