Israeli scientists gave an artificial molecule they invented to 30 mice suffering from Alzheimer’s — and found that all of them recovered, regaining full cognitive abilities.

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[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. With those kind of results, I wonder if they might try to fast track that to human testing in people who are in late stage Alzheimer's and have nothing to lose?

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It would be insteresting for sure, but two things: Late stage AD is already untreatable, there's too much brain matter lost, so you have to treat it early if you really want to see good effects, and: this seems to do quite a lot and I wonder how much of it really would be safe for the patient. Still as they said it's interesting, and warrants further study.