Tag: Alzheimer’s

30
Mar 2017

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Alzheimer’s Disease Part Three: Meeting 2025 Goals

  In early 2011, the National Alzheimer’s Project was formed — a strategic plan aimed at addressing the looming health care crisis posed by the disease and the aging population. Its aim: to coordinate research efforts across the U.S. federal government with the goal of preventing or effectively treating Alzheimer’s Disease by 2025. Since then,...
7
Mar 2017

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Part One – Another One Bites the Dust

Alzheimer’s Disease: Part One – Another one bites the dust, but a possible glimmer of hope on the horizon   On February 14, Merck halted the Phase 3 trial of its Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate, verubecestat, after independent analysis showed that the drug had “virtually no chance of working.” This late stage failure was just the...
21
Sep 2016

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Mapping the Brain: Dawn of a New Era for Neuroscience Research?

On July 20, a team of neuroscience researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and other centers published a precise new brain map in Nature — an outcome of the White House BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative, first announced in 2013. The new map draws in part on the brain’s internal...