{"id":12696,"date":"2023-04-13T03:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2023-04-25T03:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:13:37","slug":"wow-bravomit-keep-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/13\/wow-bravomit-keep-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow. Bravo,MIT &#8211; keep going."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/13\/mit-scientists-find-way-to-treat-reverse-alzheimers-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MIT scientists discover \u2018remarkable\u2019 way to reverse Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/13\/mit-scientists-find-way-to-treat-reverse-alzheimers-disease\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cvc-B_-Wa08\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists at MIT have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/06\/breakthrough-alzheimers-drug-earns-accelerated-fda-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unlocked a major breakthrough<\/a>\u00a0in the battle to reverse the effects of Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014 one that shows \u201cdramatic reductions\u201d in neurodegeneration,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2023\/new-peptide-may-hold-potential-alzheimers-treatment-0413\" target=\"_blank\">a report stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exciting achievement came about after researchers were able to interfere with an enzyme typically found to be overactive in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/17\/alzheimers-diagnoses-expected-to-reach-nearly-13-million-by-2050-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the brains of Alzheimer\u2019s patients<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hyperactive enzyme, CDK5, was treated with an unnamed peptide, or string of amino acids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early tests conducted on mice revealed significant \u2014 and promising \u2014&nbsp;results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis peptide has the ability to enter the brain and in a couple of different models, the peptide shows protective effects against loss of neurons and also appears to be able to rescue some of the behavior deficits,\u201d study author Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT\u2019s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/13\/mit-scientists-find-way-to-treat-reverse-alzheimers-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post MIT scientists discover \u2018remarkable\u2019 way to reverse Alzheimer\u2019s disease By\u00a0Alex Mitchell Scientists at MIT have\u00a0unlocked a major breakthrough\u00a0in the battle to reverse the effects of Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014 one that shows \u201cdramatic reductions\u201d in neurodegeneration,\u00a0a report stated. The exciting achievement came about after researchers were able to interfere with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}