the moon's favors: Alzheimer's villain cures multiple sclerosis in mice - health - 01 August 2012

2012/08/02

Alzheimer's villain cures multiple sclerosis in mice - health - 01 August 2012 - New Scientist

A notorious biochemical villain has just revealed its heroic side.Beta-amyloid, a misfolded protein fragment blamed for killing brain cells in Alzheimer's disease, has reversed the symptoms of mice suffering from the rodent equivalent of multiple sclerosis (MS). ...

link: health - 01 August 2012 - New Scientist

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine