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Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Wd06crfQLUM New treatments for Alzheimer’s, sickle cell disease, concussions, organ replacement, wound healing, and color blindness.  All this on  Medicine of the Future.   My reports typically cover research discoveries that you can use here and now.  This new feature, Medicine Of The Future, gives you an inkling of what’s to come in future medical and surgical therapeutics.   A small molecule discovered by University of Arizona researchers regulates cholesterol levels in the brain and may become part of new therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.  ABCA1 is that molecule and increasing it reduces dementia-producing brain inflammation.  The team found another small molecule CL2-57 that bumps up ABCA1 production and it could become Alzheimer therapy.   The Cambridge, MA biopharmaceutical company Fulcrum Therapeutics is developing a pill to treat the root cause of sickle cell disease.  Their oral drug FTX-6058 triggers the production of fetal-type hemoglobin within red cells and prevents the