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Cleaning up the aging brain: Rochester scientists are restoring the brain’s trash disposal system with a drug currently used to induce labor (www.rochester.edu)
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[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

It's especially exciting that there's an existing medicine that appears to help with the brains waste removal process. Should speed up time to get a treatment out for widespread use.