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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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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There has been a fucking epidemic of MD/scientists running to the media with miracle cures lately.

Mice do not get Alzheimers, they were engineered to show one aspect of the disease that has been promoted by fraudulent studies. As for the reversal, mouse brains are highly plastic and similar to a human baby, nothing like a >60 year old.