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treats Alzheimer's. VANCOUVER-(Business Wire)-April 9, 2009 - Innovative research by a 17- year-old Surrey BC, Sands Secondary School student that could lead to an improved treatment for Alzheimer¹s disease has earned first place in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the British Columbia region. Grade 12 student Yang (Linda) Liu won the $3000 cash prize with a study into the tangling of a protein that causes Alzheimer¹s and many other neurological diseases. She will travel to Ottawa to compete in the national SABC competition May 5th to be judged by a panel of experts at the National Research Council. The national winners will be announced at a ceremony in Ottawa on May 6th. Ms. Liu discovered that rhubarb extract possesses the ability to inhibit the clumping of a tau protein. Aggregation of this tau protein is implicated in the cause of many neurological diseases, among them Alzheimer¹s, ALS, Parkinson¹s, and others, and this research has potential applications in their treatment. -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA Not all who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) Some Hopi gardener said, "This is not about growing vegetables; it is about growing kids." |
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