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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 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

This is why almost everyone does development, not research.

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do tell

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

There is a lot of incremental research that gets transformed into ZOMG YOU GUYS!!! by the research office. The journals are full of papers demonstrating a complete rescue of a disease model ( and I'm an author on some of them). What the papers are really demonstrating is the inadequacy of the animal model.