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Re:Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfun... by narrator on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:45PM (#15633496)
The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed:

The polyhydroxylated fullerene derivative C60(OH)24 protects mice from ionizing-radiation-induced immune and mitochondrial dysfunction. : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914272

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Re:Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfun... by fsloth on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:34AM (#15633769)
What the... where did this idea of injecting hydrolyzed fullerenes come from? Fantastic that it works, but coming up with the idea in the first place sounds completely bonkers (in a good way).
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Re:Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfun... by narrator on Monday November 06, 2017 @10:33AM (#15636164)
They did a study a while back to see if fullerenes were toxic in mice and they doubled the mice life span. Lots of research outside of the U.S after that. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961212...

Nobody cares about this kind of research in the U.S because it's a synthetic substance that's not patentable.

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Re:Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfun... by fsloth on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:34PM (#15637084)
That's amazing! I had no idea of this result.
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