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Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.