Topic: Cancer vs Alzheimers

[Nemesis]

For decades, researchers have noted that cancer and Alzheimer's disease are rarely found in the same person, fuelling speculation that one condition might offer some degree of protection from the other.

Nature:

Now, a study in mice provides a possible molecular solution to the medical mystery: a protein produced by cancer cells seems to infiltrate the brain, where it helps to break apart clumps of misfolded proteins that are often associated with Alzheimer's disease. The study, which was 15 years in the making, was published on 22 January in Cell and could help researchers to design drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Now if that protein can be duplicated (or extracted from cultured cancer) it might help those with Alzheimers (and maybe other types of dementia?).

[Lono]

Very interesting - I hadn't heard of that study - thanks!