An Italian neuroscieist and an Italian epidemiologist who transformed MS’s treatme, won the Breakthrough Prize Prize to “Oscar Science”, according to the . The award is founded with the support of Sergei Brin, Percy Chan, Mark Zuckerberg.
Stephen Huzer and Alberto Achirio have been honored for decades of neurological disiegration. Humer’s research on MS began about five years ago when he met a young patie named Andrea, who was very taleed and worked at the White House. But MS had destroyed his life.
According to the 5 -year -old, now director of the California University Institute of Neuroscience, the patie could not speak, the right side of his body was paralyzed, unable to swallow food and could not breathe alone soon.
There was no treatme for MS at that time. The researchers knew that the disease was damaging to the ceral nervous system and caused by the immune system’s reaction against the body, but they thought white blood cells known as T cells were the only cause of the process. In the meaime, Huzaler questioned this belief.
He examined the role of cells, another type of white blood cells in the disease. He and his colleagues were able to rebuild MS in the human nervous system in small monkeys. The Federal Organization of Medical Research called the relationship between the cells and the disease biologically unacceptable and rejected the request for a clinical test funding. But Huzer and his team were still in place.
They persuaded Genesch to support the experimes and achieved good results in the year 9. The researchers have developed treatmes aimed at taking cells, leading to a significa reduction and more than 5 % of brain inflammation.
This trend led to a path to better market treatmes to slow the progression of the disease in many paties. But it also raised questions. For example, what causes human white blood cells to operate against the body. This question confused Achirio, an Italian researcher, now Professor Harvard. He investigated why MS most affected paties in the northern hemisphere. “The geographical distribution of MS was ieresting,” he says. The disease was rare in the tropics and near the equator. This led to Achirio to think about the effect of the virus on the process. He and his team conducted a long -term investigation io millions of young Americans hired in the army.
After 5 years of research, they reached a response, and in the year 5 AD, they confirmed the relationship between MS and Epashtin Bar virus (EBV), a common infection in Infectiious Mononucleosis.
“Most people with EBV never have MS,” says Achirio, a 6 -year -old. But anyone with MS has already had the virus.
Although this discovery does not explain the cause of MS, hopes for finding new treatmes and preveive measures for the disease that are still ureated.
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