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Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say (futurism.com)

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In our latest attempts to make lab rats immortal, a new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice. This is a rare case where the title isn't even clickbait.

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we'll save test tubes from cancer...again.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you can’t get excited by incremental advancements, you should probably unsubscribe from science as a topic.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dude it's worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So...jaded.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

This is why almost everyone does development, not research.