A potential cure for Alzheimer’s? Scientists discover new culprit behind brain-wasting disease | Fox News

A potential cure for Alzheimer’s? Scientists discover new culprit behind brain-wasting disease | Fox News: In a groundbreaking study from Stanford University School of Medicine, researchers detailed the significance of a protein called C1q, which was previously known as the initiator of the immune system response. After analyzing brain tissue in mice of varying ages, as well as postmortem samples of a 2-month-old infant and an elderly person, they discovered that C1q exponentially increases in the aging brain – creating as much as a 300-fold buildup. Comparatively, most age-associated increases of proteins in the brain are only three- or four-fold.