The expert said when doctors will come close to curing Alzheimer's disease

Professor Julie Williams from Cardiff University said that in 2009 only three genes were known,

associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and todaythere are 92 of them. The scientist believes that this is an indicator that the knowledge of doctors and biologists is learning more and more about this disease and in the near future it will be possible to cure it. “I have learned more in the last seven years than in the previous 20,” she said in an interview.

Julie Williams, director of the Britishfrom the Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, has been studying Alzheimer's disease for 30 years. This is a progressive form of dementia for which there is currently no cure or effective treatment to slow the progression of symptoms.

However, the scientist is optimistic:she believes that advanced gene therapy techniques will reveal more information about AD and lead to doctors and researchers eventually finding a cure. It will at least slow down or even stop the onset of cognitive deterioration.

“Tests that cost millions in the 90scan now be done for about £30 (RUB 3,056.82 - approx. «High-Tech»). For example, we now know that defective genes change the way immune cells work,” explains the scientist.

Decades of research into AD and dementiashow that there is no single “cure” for a disease, but a more holistic approach is needed to treat its various causes from all possible angles. Williams hopes the pace of progress will lead to effective treatments by 2040, when dementia cases are expected to skyrocket.

“I think that by 2040 we will be able to offer a range of treatments… One of them will be able to target a wide range of causes,” she said.

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