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A new study has found that Alzheimer’s Disease may be transmissible. It has previously been thought to be a non-contagious disease.

The study, conducted by a team from University College London, performed autopsies on eight cadavers that were known to be victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), that was contracted by them after having received human growth hormone therapy that was unknowingly contaminated with CJD prions. The team found that six of the subjects’ brains showed amyloid-beta pathology — amyloid-beta being a protein that is associated with Alzheimer’s, with four of the cases showing a buildup of amyloid deposits in the blood vessels of their brains.
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Science has great news for bibliophiles who can’t quite get the same buzz from downloading an e-book onto their Kindle as they do from the purchase of a good old-fashioned paper novel.

Aside from the fact that Kindle removes the sensory experience of book-ownership – you can’t touch, flick through, even smell a Kindle book – a recent study has suggested that readers who attempt to absorb information from an e-book are less likely to remember facts that those who read the same information from the printed page.
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The latest research from the Buck Institute in Novato, California, has identified a possible trigger for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and has determined that resveratrol, an antioxidant present in red wine, could benefit sufferers. The research, which has been published this month in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, revolves around ApoE4, a cholesterol-carrying protein associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and SirT1, a member of the sirtuin family of proteins.
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