A new vaccine protects against memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but without potentially dangerous side effects, a new animal study reports.
The research was presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.
Vaccines against amyloid-beta accumulation in the brain, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, have long been considered a promising approach to developing a treatment. But finding a vaccine that is both safe and effective has been challenging.
