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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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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel like if the average person had any remote idea just how gloriously, horrifyingly complicated the human body is, we would be simultaneously far more skeptical of press releases, and far, far more invested in the actual science going on to figure out how to keep the whole cathedral from collapsing.