Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have reversed Alzheimers-like symptoms in mouse models of the disease with injections of neural stem cells. The first author, Mathew Blurton-Jones, has a Training grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The lead author, Frank LaFerla, has a SEED grant and an Early Translational grant from CIRM.
The Alzheimer’s Project: How Far We Have Come in Alzheimer’s Research (HBO)
July 3rd, 2010
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The Molecular Basis of Alzheimer’s Disease – Prof. Patrick C. Fraering
June 11th, 2010
This movie describes the development of Alzheimer’s disease at a molecular level. It shows the very important role of the amyloid-beta peptides in the generation of deadly plaques in the brain. It is proposed by the research of professor Patrick C. Fraering who is head of the laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Alzheimer’s Disease at the Life Science department and Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – EPFL. Professor Patrick Fraering’s lab website is at: fraering-lab.epfl.ch The graphics and sound engineering is done by the Visualbiotech team with help of its rendering and simulation system called BioInspire. Visualbiotech engineers: Pablo de Heras Ciechomski Robin Mange website: www.visualbiotech.ch Music is composed by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com We hope you learned something new!