I am a scientist, businessman, author, and philanthropist. For nearly two decades, I was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health where I founded two academic research departments, the Division of Biochemical Pharmacology and the Division of Human Retrovirology.
Alzheimer’s is not thought of as a transmissible illness — someone with the disease cannot suddenly “infect” someone else, just as someone with a broken arm cannot pass on their injury to others. This is taken to be common knowledge. A newmay force us to add an asterisk to that assumption: when healthy mice receive bone marrow from mice sick with hereditary Alzheimer’s disease, they themselves go on to develop Alzheimer’s.
The findings are still early, but the implications are significant. For one, we may need to start screening donors for genetically induced Alzheimer's disease to prevent the accidental transfer of the neurodegenerative illness.
After having extracted the bone marrow from the sick mice, the scientists transplanted it into two different healthy mouse groups: one group engineered to completely lack the amyloid precursor protein gene and another group that carried a normal mouse version of the gene.
Alzheimer's Disease Dementia Cognition Memory Cognitive Decline Neurological Diseases Neurodegeneration Blood Donation Organ Transplantation
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