X-Message-Number: 17280
From: "Bryan Hall" <>
Subject: Alzheimer's researchers revive "dead" brain cells
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:14:10 -0700

The memory and learning problems experienced by Alzheimer's patients might
one day be reversible by re-awakening key brain cells scientists thought had
died, say US researchers.

The team, led by Jonathan Cooper, now at King's College London, and William
Mobley at the University of Stanford, say they can arouse apparently dead
cells with the help of a chemical messenger called nerve growth factor, or
NGF.

Read full story at:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991150

-Bryan Hall

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