Scientists from the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC) have identified two drugs which have the potential to block a pathway that leads to brain cell death, offering hope for a potential therapy in dementias such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The MRC is a publicly-funded charitable body that carries out research in a network of universities and hospitals across the UK.
The team made headlines in 2013 with the discovery of a chemical that, for the first time, was shown to prevent neurodegeneration, using mouse models.
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