University Showcase 7/19 8a: Alzheimer鈥檚 affects about 43 million people worldwide and the rate continues to escalate. Researchers at the University of New Mexico have developed a vaccine that could possibly prevent tau tangles, once of the proteins that accumulates in the brains of Alzheimer鈥檚 patients, which could prevent cognitive decline that comes with the illness.
The team recently published a paper in about their research using virus-like particles that eliminated the tau tangles in mice, which had been bred to develop symptoms like those affecting human Alzheimer鈥檚 patients.
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- , Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
- , Professor and Vice Chair, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
- , Ph.D. candidate, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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