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.
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.
In a mouse model. The mice don’t have alzheimers they have… something we gave them that looks like it… Hopefully it is similar enough
We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we’ll save test tubes from cancer…again.
If you can’t get excited by incremental advancements, you should probably unsubscribe from science as a topic.
Dude it’s worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So…jaded.
This is why almost everyone does development, not research.
Do tell
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.
Yeah, I didn’t read the whole thing but apparently only in 5xFAD mice. I wish they would have also tried it in a Tau model like PS19.
There has been a fucking epidemic of MD/scientists running to the media with miracle cures lately.
Mice to 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.
Well I hear we are adding more plastic to the brain through micro dosing micro plastics in our every day lives. Wait…