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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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Killing and reversing are different levels of difficult.
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.
What, again?
We've really done the most horrific things to mice only to have discoveries and treatments paywalled.
the drugs are letrozole (usually used to treat breast cancer) and irinotecan (usually used to treat colon and lung cancer).
Are they giving mice Alzheimers????
It's because of all the vaccines
I get your humor
What a great time to be a mouse!
"Already approved by regulators in the US "
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Older, now-generic drugs. Los of companies produce and sell them for other purposes.
Imagine Tylenol is found to cure a disease.
Tylenol is already approved, with known conditions under which it is safe and not safe.
Therefore, it is easier and safer to test a new use for Tylenol than starting from scratch testing a previously unknown drug.
Due to an unforseen supply issue, Tylenol is now $1000 a bottle.
Mice get Alzheimer's??? What other animals do?