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Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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I always wonder whether they have a path of scientific testing and are trying to achieve a specific outcome or are they just creating pills with different mixes of molecular chains and trying to discover what the pills might do.
Both actually - this is called "drug repurposing" where they systematically screen existing drugs (that we already know are safe-ish) against disease models to find new uses, which is way faster and cheeper than developing new compounds from scratch.