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chemical device dicovered in worms may help doctors treat diseases including Alzheimer's, researchers believe.
Chemical device dicovered in worms may help doctors treat diseases Scientists bred worms with the ability to "turn on" a reaction in their body's cells that is usually prompted automatically by a drop in surrounding oxygen.
Those worms able to "turn on" the reaction - called the hypoxic response - lived longer and are relatively free from toxic proteins that accumulate and clump together as an animal ages, the researchers found
Similar collections of toxic proteins are seen in the brain cells of people with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and several other degenerative conditions associated with aging.
The bodily substance that controls the hypoxic response is called.......read the whole story
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