A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

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.

  • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    592·
    16 hours ago

    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

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
      2110·
      16 hours ago

      We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we’ll save test tubes from cancer…again.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        14 hours ago

        If you can’t get excited by incremental advancements, you should probably unsubscribe from science as a topic.

        • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
          81·
          9 hours ago

          Dude it’s worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So…jaded.

    • piconaut@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      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.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      52·
      14 hours ago

      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.