{"id":1913479,"date":"2023-04-12T04:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T08:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-gene-discovery-predicted-to-yield-life-changing-alzheimers-treatment\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T08:42:28","slug":"new-gene-discovery-predicted-to-yield-life-changing-alzheimers-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-gene-discovery-predicted-to-yield-life-changing-alzheimers-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gene Discovery Predicted To Yield Life-Changing Alzheimer\u2019s Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-gene-discovery-predicted-to-yield-life-changing-alzheimers-treatment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A group of scientists from Cardiff University has made a groundbreaking discovery in Alzheimer&#8217;s research that could lead to life-changing treatments for sufferers of the most common form of the disease in the next 15 years. Their research began in 2009, and in 2022, they announced they had found three genes that led to the disease. Now, they have discovered an additional 92 genes that could lead to effective treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2040, I think we\u2019ll be in the position to offer a range of treatments, and we might not know exactly why, but one of them will be able to act on the huge range of causes,\u201d said Professor Julie Williams, the Cardiff Dementia Centre\u2019s director.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Williams acknowledged that various therapies would be needed to combat the constellation of problems the disease presents. \u201cOnce you know where to start looking, then you can study the effects which genes have on specific brain activity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Professor Williams, defective genes change the way microglia immune cells work, which are the bin lorries of the brain clearing away what they see as rubbish. When microglia are less efficient at clearing genuine rubbish, they mistakenly kill off healthy brain cells, including synapses. The loss of synapses leads to the loss of connections, thought, and memories.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Professor Tara Spires-Jones of the University of Edinburgh predicted that a drug might be available within a decade that would limit the suffering of Alzheimer\u2019s patients to initial mild confusion. She added, \u201cI know all these decades of research can seem disheartening, but game-changing, miracle drugs have been found for other brain diseases, and one is coming for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A computer program announced last July could enable researchers to diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s disease much earlier, so it can be treated earlier after its onset. Using audio recordings from neuropsychological interviews with 1,000 people, Boston University researchers used speech recognition tools to transcribe the recordings and translate them into numbers. Then the chances of cognitive impairment were determined by those numbers, demographic data, and diagnoses from neurologists and neuropsychologists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach brings us one step closer to early intervention,\u201d said Ioannis Paschalidis, a co-author on the paper. \u201cIt can form the basis of an online tool that could reach everyone and could increase the number of people who get screened early.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists at Cardiff University have revealed stunning information that could lead to life-changing treatment for sufferers of the most common form of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in the next 15 years. The research by the scientific team started in 2009, and in 2022 they announced they had found three genes that led to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1913480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11707,6970,18103,20630,10126,6967,19123],"class_list":["post-1913479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alzheimers","tag-discovery","tag-gene","tag-life-changing","tag-predicted","tag-treatment","tag-yield"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}