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Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice (medicalxpress.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Anyone with a proper background would be kind enough to speculate whether this could lead to a possible cure?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not in this field, but I mean, this one seems like all the other headlines we've read about on this topic, only for them to be dead ends. Mouse models are notoriously fraught, especially in the Alzheimer's context. Wake me up when they have treated humans in vivo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for clearing it up. Unfortunately it does seem like another research dead end

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't call it a dead end. It's the kind of small discoveries that, when put together with all the past and future small discoveries, will eventually lead to progress.