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There's a couple clinical trials with various variations of young blood or blood plasma being given to Alzheimer's patients. Should be interesting to see how th
by macrolime 4y ago
There's a couple clinical trials with various variations of young blood or blood plasma being given to Alzheimer's patients. Should be interesting to see how that goes.
- jcampbell1 4y agoDid Peter Theil fund this research?
- macrolime 4y agoNot sure who's funding what Most recent one I saw is this one that I think is funded by the Norwegian government https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/9/e056964 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/9/e056964 Then there's startups like Alkahest https://www.alkahest.com/pipeline/akst-grf6019/ https://www.alkahest.com/pipeline/akst-grf6019/ Clinical trials of sorts has been going on since at least 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22930 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22930
- jcampbell1 4y agoIt was a joke as Peter Theil has been jokingly called a vampire because he gets blood transfusions from young people in an effort to maintain his youth. That being said, thanks for the links. I read them all. Here is the results of the Phase II from Alkahest. Not a game changer thus far. https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/grf6019 https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/grf6019