The latest edition, January 2010, of the Prevention magazine has an article about research done at Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at West Virginia University. By pricking a finger, they have developed a skin test which detects defective enzymes involved with memory function. Even better than the test which finds defective enzymes is that the researchers also discovered that low doses of the chemotherapy drug bryostatin reactivates the defective enzymes. Trials in humans will begin in 2010.
Although Dwane does not have Alzheimer's, for which this research seems to point, it is quite possible that it could help other types of dementia. Wonderful news.
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