WOW! Hungarians to cure Alzheimer’s disease?

Gyula Dékány and his team had been struggling to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, but now, they discovered a biomolecule suitable for their aim. However, the profit of the development will not come to Hungary. 

The two diseases are very common in the world since our lifespan increases continuously. In Hungary, at least 250 thousand people are suffering from the former, and experts say that in a couple of years, more people can die from these two diseases than in cancer or a heart attack, hvg reported. A Hungarian professor and his team have been researching the issue for 10 years, and now, it seems that they have found a biomolecule able to reverse the process. The technology is ready, and a factory is already under construction in Portugal for the production. Moreover,

animal testing will start next year in the United States.

At the core of the discovery of the Hungarian team is the fact that oligosaccharides in  breast milk not only help the development of babies but can also hinder dementia. Gyula Dékány has been researching in the United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal, Denmark, and Germany in the last few years. But the first phase of the production happened in Hungary, where hvg had the chance to talk to him.

He said that now they can produce sphingosine in huge quantities and the required quality. Until now, only a German company could do the same, but only in small quantities. Today, those suffering from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases can receive only symptomatic treatment, but thanks to professor Dékány’s discovery,