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A good solid step. Having produced an animal analogue of Alzheimer's and now come to a vaccine against it showing basic safety and effectiveness in mice is the
by PaulKeeble 3y ago
A good solid step. Having produced an animal analogue of Alzheimer's and now come to a vaccine against it showing basic safety and effectiveness in mice is the step towards human trials. Early yet its still years away, but hopefully another awful disease is in the process of being reduced.
- angiosperm 3y agoThe animal analogue of Alzheimer's has been very, very thoroughly demonstrated to be an entire failure for predicting the effect of interventions. Still, studying that failed analogue (to the wholesale exclusion of attention to the actual disease in humans) has been a good career path for an entire generation of biochemists. One wonders what they could pivot to when it is finally abandoned; and what would need to happen before that could be achieved. As it is, those biochemists directly control $2B in grants to themselves, and show little appetite for change.