Billionaire Bill Gates is personally investing $50 million (U.S.) to help fund research to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that Gates says has struck members of his own family. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, which destroys memory and other mental processes, and so Gates said he is investing his own money into the Dementia Discovery Fund, a private-public partnership to search for a solution. “It’s a terrible disease that devastates both those who have it and their loved ones,” the philanthropist wrote Monday on his blog. “This is something I know a lot about, because men in my family have suffered from Alzheimer’s. My family history isn’t the sole reason behind my interest in Alzheimer’s.

Source: thestar November 13, 2017 17:48 UTC