New treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

A new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease has been developed by Canadian and US scientists.

Chris Orvig at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues incorporated a thioflavin dye molecule with pyridinones. The dye is used as a marker for detecting amyloid protein deposits in tissues – a sign of neurodegenerative disease – and pyridinones cross the blood-brain barrier and trap the metal ions that cause the Alzheimer’s disease.

Targeting memory loss

Read the full news story in Chemistry World and download Orvig’s Chemical Science Edge article for free.

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