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   Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Dec-2025 02:05:08 JST Jesse 🇫🇷

   waiter! waiter! another potential alzheimer's treatment only tested on mice that has a 98% chance of never making it past human trials!
   
   https://case.edu/news/new-study-shows-alzheimers-disease-can-be-reversed-achieve-full-neurological-recovery-not-just-prevented-or-slowed-animal-models

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     Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Dec-2025 02:14:43 JST Jesse 🇫🇷

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     rodents don't even naturally get alzheimers, we have to edit their genes to make them get what we think is the disease
     
     but then that means most treatments end up being useless on humans because it's a completely different organism with the real illness and not just our best attempt at replicating it

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     Shebang 🔜 @shebang@is-a.cat (shebang@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Dec-2025 02:16:20 JST Shebang 🔜 @shebang@is-a.cat

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     @jessew What the fuck why are we giving rats alzheimer's