Got memory loss? How about your parents or grandparents? There’s hope in science-based therapy. In two groundbreaking and complementary studies, Timothy Jarome, associate professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the School of Neuroscience, and his graduate students have demonstrated how gene-editing tools can target age-related molecular changes in the brain to restore memory performance in older subjects.
Conducted on rats—widely recognized as a reliable model for studying memory and aging—these studies provide new hope for understanding and potentially reversing memory decline, a key factor in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.