Studies Question Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment
12:19 minutes
Last year scientists reported that a skin cancer drug appeared to reverse the effects of an Alzheimer’s-like disease in mice. But four studies out this week in Science question the original results. Ronald Petersen, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, talks about the new findings, and the hunt for Alzheimer’s drugs.
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Ronald Petersen
Ronald Petersen is chair of the Advisory Council for the National Alzheimer’s Project Act and director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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About Christopher Intagliata
@cintagliataChristopher Intagliata was Science Friday’s senior producer. He once served as a prop in an optical illusion and speaks passable Ira Flatowese.