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New hope for Alzheimer's patients

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    Scientists reprogram skin cells in study

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-- good news regarding house timers.

And a possible treatment that you say not so fat -- because we're always they were always saying alzheimer's you know we're so worried about it more than five million people haven't in the US we were -- -- so badly.

That we jump in the media jumps in says here it is but this is very preliminary with this isn't it is exciting news.

Is that they took skin cells and they manipulated them into becoming cells that build brain tissue almost like a scifi movies so in mice.

They were able to get these mice to have more brain tissue in the memory centers.

Then they had before I think that's astounding but that's far.

From saying we can now put it into people's brains in and prevent -- -- could by the time -- diagnose alzheimer's it's usually pretty far along.

And there's a mound normal protein in there that we can't get rid of so we have to diagnose it very early alzheimer's which were getting better.

But but again this is years and years and years away and -- -- -- -- -- or something exciting last week.

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