• Question: how many peoples lives have you saved with paralyseAlzheimer’s disease.d

    Asked by leeboii to Sam on 16 Nov 2012.
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      Sam Godfrey answered on 16 Nov 2012:


      At the moment none. The frustrating thing about science is you often find something which works really well in the lab, but making it work in people is much harder. We are at the very beginning of our work, so we have an idea that we think might work but first we need to show that it works in the lab, then see if it works in humans. From lab work to people can take 10 years, so my particular medicine won’t be out for quite a while. There are lots of medicines coming out all the time though, so hopefully others will help people soon.

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