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Animal Research Minute - Could new research with mice lead to a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease?

  Program 4622  (download mp3)
  Posted on Mon, May 9, 2011


Well the Orange County Register reports that researchers are studying mice that have been bred to develop mouse versions of Alzheimer’s and will implant human neural stem cells in these mice. Scientists have already studied the effects of mouse stem cells in mice and found they greatly improved the animals’ memories. Studying the effects of human neural stem cells is the important next step in understanding how stem cells work and whether they could be viable treatments for people living with Alzheimer’s disease.
 

Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/news/cells-297062-stem-human.html

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