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Major Advances in Science and Medicine: Alzheimer's Disease

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(@michele-b)
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I am thrilled beyond words that Science Daily has announced that the research team at Cornell University has announced that research scientists have broken a major impediment (the blood-brain barrier issue) in treating and finding a potential cure for Alzheimer's Disease!

This has been near and dear to my heart for many decades. Besides caring for my own loved ones on a personal level, I have dedicated time and energy as part of a large group quilters from all over the world under the leadership of Ami Simms,  towards raising research funding grants. 

As one of multitudes of members of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative and website support personnel from 2006 through 2013 we raised over a million dollars for specific research leading directly to this newest breakthrough at Cornell. We did this by our creation of small format art quilts (the size of a piece of paper) which we donated to AAQI to be placed at sale or at online auctions. All monies raised went directly into research grant funding at major research universities.

This is quoted from and part of the public release from Cornell/Science Daily:

"The team has identified approximately 20 drugs, many of them already FDA approved for human use, that have potential in dementia therapy and are screening these drugs in Alzheimer's mice now.

Schaffer said he's "super-optimistic" that, if the same capillary-blocking mechanism is at play in humans as it is in mice, this line of research "could be a complete game-changer for people with Alzheimer's disease."

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, and the Brightfocus Foundation."

Science Daily: Alzheimer's Research Breaks the Blood-Brain Barrier

I have remained confident that this latest discovery would happen within 10 years of our final donation in 2013.

I am so optimist that it could make an enormous impact on all future funding and discoveries that i created its own topic here as further updates are released . And even if it takes another 10 years for use in humans....I'm going for this year that a new additional announcement, or discovery that leads to a specific protocol, or a drug leading to a vaccine or other treatment and a cure in my lifetime!


   
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(@michele-b)
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Note:

My link was supposed to read:

Science Daily: Alzheimer's Disease Research Breaks Blood-Brain-Flow Barrier.

I didn't catch the missing word 'Flow' before my editing screen glitched and booted me out of editing.


   
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Michele, to know that your efforts may have helped with a major  breakthrough for Alzheimers Disease research is fantastic.  May this indeed be what we have all been waiting for.


   
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Lovedures, thank you so much for truly understanding. It's incredibly emotionally touching and meaningful for me. 

As a lifelong volunteer, helping others and being of service has filled my life and given me my greatest purpose, drive, intent and happiness.

And to know that my purpose driven intentions are truly helping others touches my heart and fills me with great, great joy.

 


   
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