▲ 436 ▼ Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say (futurism.com) submitted 9 months ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/science@lemmy.world 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) Do tell permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent