Brain Implants Relieve Alzheimer's Damage

Genetically engineered cells implanted in mice have cleared away toxic plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. The animals were sickened with a human gene that caused them to develop, at an accelerated rate, the disease that robs millions of elderly people of their memories. After receiving the doctored cells, the brain-muddling plaques melted away. If this works in humans, old age could be a much happier time of life.

It's a great time to be a mouse...

[edashofy]

It's a fantastic time to be a mouse. Mouse with cancer? No problem. Mouse with alzheimers? No problem. Mouse with diabetes? Go ahead and have that Snicker bar, we have the cure for what ails ya.

Flowers...

[Penguinshit]

... for poor old Algernon. Good to see he'll remember his "smart" days.

It really works...

[D-Cypell]

My grandmother was involved in some secret trials of this technology. I have to say it is marvelous. For years she could hardly remeber a thing, but once we found a doner she can now remember everything up until the motorcylce accident.

How to tell when a mouse has Alzheimer's...

[Anonymous Coward]

He stops trying to run away from the guy in the lab coat.

Re:It really works...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your aunt? [harpercollins.com]

Re:It's a great time to be a mouse...

[CheeseTroll]

Mouse with head still attached? Yep, they'll take care of that, too!