A dipeptide as memory molecule ! ........

Ehud Gazit and his colleaugues at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, have developed a novel approach for treatment of Alzheimer's disease. They have developed a compound made from two non-physiological amino acids (α-aminoisobutyric acid and D-tryptophan), that appears to improve the cognitive abilities of a murine model of the disease and reduces the formation of the precursors to amyloid plaques in their brains. I hope this interesting research, may lead to a hope for the Alzheimer patients......