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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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[-] piconaut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

If you're talking about the infectious brain hypothesis, I agree. I'm submitting a manuscript on this topic right now. I wouldn't say that all mouse studies are pointless though. People just tend to design and/or interpret them poorly due to ignoring limitations. Mouse and human physiology are in fact more dissimilar than the majority of researchers seem to acknowledge.

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