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Researchers at UBC and the University of Sherbrooke have found that selected antibodies will attack a-beta oligomers in cultured nerve cells. “It renders them non-toxic,” he says.

The next step is to test the treatment on mice engineered to develop Alzheimer’s. Mice studies will be completed at UBC and a lab in Milan, Italy, likely within three months, Dr. Cashman says.

If the work goes as planned, Cangene will begin developing an experimental treatment for clinical trials in humans, he says. “Cangene thinks it’s four years away.” Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s is a “very promising approach,” says Paul Aisen, a professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. But because various types of molecules may be involved in causing the disease, he says, “it’s not clear which precise targets are going to prove most useful.” Continue to read: health.usnews.com

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