Potential dementia vaccine has been tested successfully on mice and could be tried on humans within two years
A medical professional eyes a brain scan in this undated file photo.TORONTO -- A vaccine designed to prevent dementia is ready to enter the human trial stage within two years after successful tests on mice, researchers say.” explores the 20 years of U.S.-backed research that was mostly carried out at South Australia’s Flinders University by Nikolai Petrovsky.
The treatment consists of a combination of two drugs that target and remove “brain plaque” and tau protein aggregate that are linked to the neurodegeneration and cognitive decline exhibited in Alzheimer’s disease,
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