{"id":83,"date":"2018-04-10T07:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-04-09T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:25:38","slug":"sounds-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/sounds-promising\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds promising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/04\/09\/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-human-brain-cells-first-time\/\">Working on cells<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers are now working with the pharmaceutical industry to improve the compounds so they can be tested on human patients.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment is particularly significant because it took place in human cells.<\/p>\n<p>Yadong Huang, who led the study, which is published in Nature Medicine, said: \u201cDrug development for Alzheimer\u2019s disease has been largely a disappointment over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany drugs work, beautifully in a mouse model, but so far they\u2019ve all failed in clinical trials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on cells: The researchers are now working with the pharmaceutical industry to improve the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","wpcat-12-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}