Scientists at Albany Medical College have discovered a breakthrough that could one day help patients battling Alzheimer’s disease and other form’s of dementia. In the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine on Feb. 5th, the team of immunologists and neuroscientists found that targeting a specific immune cell, known as “group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), in the brain may reverse age-related cognitive decline.
They say that this study couldn’t have been such a success if not for the collaboration of other scientists in the Capital Region including those at the Neural Stem Cell Institute in Rensselaer and the Alzheimer’s Center of Albany Medical Center.
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