Posted on 07/03/2019 1:55:28 PM PDT by Twotone
The monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.
They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered lab mates is the elevated level of a specific human protein implanted inside their brains — proteins that accumulate in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease.
The monkeys have been injected with beta-amyloid, a molecule that, in high-enough amounts, is toxic to human brain tissue.
Munoz and collaborators are studying the earliest changes in those monkey cerebrums. Normally it takes several decades for Alzheimer’s to unfold in human brains. The researchers don’t have that kind of time. The injections speed things up.
If left alone, eventually the monkeys will start to show signs of Alzheimer’s. They make more mistakes on memory tasks and their reaction time slows.
Alzheimer’s research relies heavily on rodents. Munoz is trying to develop a monkey model of Alzheimer’s, because one of the biggest reasons for the staggering string of flops in the search for an effective treatment for the brain-ravaging disease is the species gap. The rat brain is a long way away from the human brain. Not so much a monkey’s.
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“The researchers don’t have that kind of time. The injections speed things up.”
wasn’t this the premise of the reboot Planet of the Apes? You know, let’s cure Alzheimer’s with this serum in monkeys..
One aspect of liberalism is its tendency to want to remove differences and unify everything.
Man and woman. God differentiates. The world mixes the two.
Wealth - God allows differences. The world wants to remove differences.
Political - God allows differing worldviews. The world only wants one worldview.
Racial association. God created racial differences and cultures. The world wants to remove differences by removing races and having a one world culture.
God has separated man from the animals. The world wants to unify man with the animals.
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty human!”.
What a great author. Read a few of his books years ago. Should read the rest.
My favorite, I’ve read them all.
Only man to have the #1 tv show, book, and movie at the same time...
Bkmrk.
Why isn’t the no-cruelty-to-animals crowd all up in arms here? They should be.
This also has the danger of phonying up the science, such as it is even with the moral shadow over it.
That reminds me; I need to check Valerie Jarrett's twitter page.
But I can't remember why.
Don't miss Crichton's autobiographical book "Travels."
It is described as being non-fiction. You can make up your own mind about that.
Manufactured Democrat voters....
Favorite author, or favorite book?
They’ll lose their glasses and run around with pants unzipped.
Then they should stop using Dems.
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