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It is today the most expensive disease, and costs are projected to increase fivefold by 2050, as the baby boomer generation ages.
Because here's what few people know but everyone should: Alzheimer's is a disease, and we can cure it.
But we only have to look at a picture of a healthy aged brain compared to the brain of an Alzheimer's patient to see the real physical damage caused by this disease.
And together, we've managed to identify a critical step in the process and are now testing a new class of drugs which would specifically block this step and stop the disease.
This is just an initial positive result, but research like this shows us that Alzheimer's is a disease that we can understand and we can cure.
We need you to raise awareness that Alzheimer's is a disease and that if we try, we can beat it.
Alzheimer's isn't, for the most part, a genetic disease.
In fact, the model is so simple that you could summarize it in six words: have disease, take pill, kill something.
You have a pneumonia, you take penicillin, you kill the microbe and you cure the disease.
And we've really spent the last 100 years trying to replicate that model over and over again in noninfectious diseases, in chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension and heart disease.
In fact, it turns out that the natural world gives us a sense of how one might think about illness in a radically different way, rather than disease, medicine, target.
Take a disease like cancer.
Or take another disease, like depression.
So this is a very common disease.
And in some ways we had hooked ourselves back onto this idea: cells, organisms, environments, because we were now thinking about bone stem cells, we were thinking about arthritis in terms of a cellular disease.
Heart disease is the number one killer for both men and women, but more women die within the first year of having a heart attack than men.
If we look at the anatomy, the blood vessels that surround the heart are smaller in women compared to men, and the way that those blood vessels develop disease is different in women compared to men.
And regionally, I'm a co-creator of a division within the Department of Emergency Medicine here at Brown University, called Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, and we conduct the research to determine the differences between men and women in emergent conditions, like heart disease and stroke and sepsis and substance abuse, but we also believe that education is paramount.
Disease and infections are widespread.
The CRISPR technology allows scientists to make changes to the DNA in cells that could allow us to cure genetic disease.
So once a double-stranded break is made in DNA, we can induce repair, and thereby potentially achieve astounding things, like being able to correct mutations that cause sickle cell anemia or cause Huntington's Disease.
Right now, a lot of the work that's going on applies to animal models of human disease, such as mice.
Additional experiments are going on in other animals that are useful for creating models for human disease, such as monkeys.
Imagine that we could try to engineer humans that have enhanced properties, such as stronger bones, or less susceptibility to cardiovascular disease or even to have properties that we would consider maybe to be desirable, like a different eye color or to be taller, things like that.
Now, you all know that high cholesterol is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke.
They led to longer lifespans, the eradication of mass disease, mass housing, almost universal education.
Another guy thought he had a terrible skin disease and spent six months with dermatologists, going from doctor to doctor.
During his second session, he told the psychiatrist he had a terrible skin disease from head to toe.
Almost like what you'd see in Parkinson's disease.
Although most people think of dopamine as the "happy" chemical of the brain, the dopamine-containing neurons in the basal ganglia die off in Parkinson's disease, that's what causes it.
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