A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

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.

  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

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

      • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 day 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.