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   Space Station To Take Part In The Study Of Alzheimer's Disease    
      
   By Aunindita Bhatia | March 10, 2015   
      
   There are 5.2 million Americans dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Recent   
   statistics show that every 67 seconds, the number of people suffering from it   
   grows. This problem is not limited to United States; in fact, this form of   
   dementia is an enduring    
   problem all over the globe. Nowadays, many medical researchers are making it a   
   point to study this disease - even ones in space.   
      
   A recent study regarding Alzheimer's shows that nerve cells in the brain   
   become strangled when certain proteins become long fibers that accumulate and   
   ultimately strangle the cells. It is in the International Space Station where   
   medical researchers    
   focused on studying Alzheimer's are working hand in hand with astronauts to   
   check on the roots of the disease.   
      
   Researchers have found a way to speed up the accumulation of protein fibers in   
   order to cut down the waiting time for the research. On the space station, the   
   accumulated fibers will not collapse under their own weight, making the   
   location a more suitable    
   place to conduct studies.   
      
   Dan Woodard of NASA's Kennedy Space Center explained that the fibers are   
   somewhat akin to human body crankcase sludge. They build up over time and   
   there is no way for the body to dispose of them. The experiment, the   
   Self-Assembly in Biology and the    
   Origin of Life: A Study into Alzheimer's (SABOL), is aboard the Space X Dragon   
   spacecraft carried by a Falcon 9 rocket.   
      
   The findings from the experiment, however, will not give us a cure to the   
   disease. SABOL is more concerned with understanding the process of how   
   Alzheimer's develops rather than focusing on how to develop a pill that would   
   ultimately cure the disease.    
   Regardless, the research is the first part of a planned series of experiments,   
   and Woodard believes that the resulting findings will be immensely beneficial   
   for the field of medicine as a whole.   
      
      
      
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