An Alzheimer’s vaccine in a nasal spray?

One in eight Americans will fall prey to Alzheimer’s disease at some point in their life, current statistics say. Because Alzheimer’s is associated with vascular damage in the brain, many of them will succumb through a painful and potentially fatal stroke. But researchers led by Dr. Dan Frenkel of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Neurobiology at the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences are working on a nasally-delivered 2-in-1 vaccine that promises to protect against both Alzheimer’s and stroke. The new vaccine repairs vascular damage in the brain by rounding up “troops” from the body’s own immune system. And in addition to its prophylactic effect, it can work even when Alzheimer’s symptoms are already present. The research on this new technology was recently accepted for publication in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. A natural way to fight Alzheimer’s “Using part of a drug...