We generally think of vaccines as preventing contagious diseases...especially right now. However, cancer "vaccines" are used to train the immune system to attack tumors.
And now a Phase I clinical trial has started at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of a nasal vaccine to prevent...Alzheimer's.
The trial will be in 16 participants who are showing signs of Alzheimer's, but otherwise healthy.
It works in the way you might expect...by activating the immune system to clear the beta amyloid plaques in the brain that cause Alzheimer's. They're putting it up the nose so it doesn't have as far to travel.
This trial is to establish safety.
There's no good treatment for Alzheimer's, so I think a lot of people will be watching this one.
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