Sharon Sha presented findings Nov. 4 from a small clinical trial that found administering blood
plasma from young donors to people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease was safe.
Some teams have begun giving
plasma from young donors to older people, to see if it can improve health (see «Fetch the young blood «-RRB-.
Maharaj's trial wouldn't be the first to transfuse
plasma from young donors into older people.
Not exact matches
They want to inject blood
plasma from young, healthy
donors into people with Alzheimer's disease to see if it improves their brain function.
But researchers at Stanford University report promising results in a trial using blood -
plasma transfusions
from young donors.
They offered customers over the age of 35 injections of
young plasma — the liquid component of blood that blood banks usually store —
from donors ages 16 to 25.