ORLANDO: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis all ravage the brain in very different ways.
But they have at least one thing in common, says Corinne Lasmezas, a neuroscientist and professor at Scripps Research Institute, in Jupiter, Fla. Each spreads from brain cell to brain cell like an infection. “So if we could block this [process], that might prevent the diseases,” Lasmezas says…