Alzheimer's brain cells grown from patients' skin cells could model disease

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Brain cells from Alzheimer's patients have been grown in a highly purified form by San Diego and international scientists, producing models of the increasingly common neurodegenerative disease suitable for testing drugs.

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Alzheimer's Brain Cells Grown in Lab; Could Provide Models of Disease

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Brain cells from Alzheimer's patients have been grown in a highly purified form by San Diego and international scientists, producing models of the increasingly common neurodegenerative disease suitable for testing drugs.

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Neuronetrix Helps Put ERP Biomarkers in the Spotlight at Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Conference

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

LOUISVILLE, KY– – Neuronetrix today announced their sponsorship of CTAD 2011 to be held November 3-5 in San Diego, CA. CTAD will be attended by some 500 leading Alzheimer’s researchers, clinicians, and …

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Catching calcium waves could provide Alzheimer’s insights (EurekAlert!)

Friday, February 12th, 2010

( University of California – San Diego ) New insights on what causes Alzheimer’s disease could arise from a recent discovery made by bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego. The finding concerns the infamous amyloid beta peptides (A?) — fragments of which form plaques thought to play a ... continue reading

Alzheimer’s brain changes studied (UPI)

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 18 (UPI) — U.S. medical scientists say they’ve developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle brain structure changes occurring in Alzheimer’s patients.

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