New research into Alzheimer s disease (AD) suggests that secondary infections and new inflammatory events amplify the brain s immune response and affect memory in mice and in humans even when these secondary events occur outside the brain.
Washington [US], June 3 (ANI): A new research into Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggested that secondary infections and new inflammatory events amplify the brain's immune response and affect memory in mice and in humans - even when these secondary events occur outside the brain.
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Luke O’Neill is a world-renowned professor of biochemistry and immunology at Trinity College Dublin. \ Philip Doyle
When Professor Luke O’Neill was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, he was playing guitar in a band called The Sleeping Arrangements.
They played a lot of pub gigs and at one stage were offered an elusive tour of Europe.
Despite some of his bandmates really wanting to pursue the opportunity, Luke declined. There was another area of his life going very well and he wanted to focus on that.
“Of course some of the guys, they weren’t impressed, ‘We wanted to go and you said no’. I said no because I had just made a big discovery in the lab.