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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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[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they'll get monetized to hell.

[โ€“] InabaResident@feddit.org 0 points 14 hours ago

While often true, they still end up making life better for millions of people often enough to be worth it.