From: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacationggmail.com> To: Bruce Moskowitz Subject: Fwd: Israel Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:39:33 +0000 I thought you might be interested in what is happening in israeli co. s since you like cutting edge stuff Schwartz Lab Prof. Michal Schwartz: Reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's and neurodegeneration. Prof. Michal Schwartz, who discovered the link between the immune system and the brain, aims to slow, stop - even reverse - the progress of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis (MS). Her many breakthroughs include an immune-based therapy that, when given to mice with Alzheimer's, eliminated the brain plaques associated with the disease. And together with Prof. Ido Amit, she recently developed an antibody that helps restore cognitive abilities and brain cells in mice, thus actually reversing some of the effects of aging. The two scientists are now developing this research into a vaccine (among other things) to slow the brain's aging process. Sobel Lab Prof. Noam Sobel investigates the many complexities of the human olfactory system, the faulty function of which can be an early sign of neurological and cognitive deteriorations; for example, a well-known symptom of Alzheimer's is mistaking the smell of chocolate for that of oranges. Based on this knowledge, he has designed olfactometers (devices that generate odors) that are capable of providing early diagnosis of Alzheimer's. Segal lab The Segal lab is a multi-disciplinary lab of computational biologists and scientists focusing on microbiome, nutrition, genetics, and gene regulation in health and disease. They aim to develop personalized nutrition and personalized medicine using machine learning, computational biology, probabilistic modeling, and analysis of heterogeneous genomic and clinical data. Eran Segal is a computational biologist. Segal has shown that there is no "One size fits all" diet, and that the very same foods can be goo