Food for Thought: Research on Plant Compound May Help Prevent Nerve-Cell Loss in the Brain

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

Dr. Rosemarie Booze, a top neuroscientist at the University of South Carolina, is conducting NIH-funded research on a phtyoestrogen compound in liquorice root that could prevent the cell death associated with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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