{"id":8875,"date":"2025-04-28T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:09:53","slug":"ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function. Researchers at the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to help both unravel this mystery of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and discover a potential treatment that obstructs the gene\u2019s moonlighting role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate\">AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Great news, except scientists are being defunded and abandoning the USA. Maybe Europe or China will pick this up and develop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s disease is actually a cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,456,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-mntlhlth","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}