Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising

by Bruce Goldman med.stanford.edu published 2017-11-04

In a small safety trial based on preclinical work by a Stanford researcher, participants receiving blood plasma infusions from young donors showed some evidence of improvement.

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