Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice

Re:Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related me... by computerphage on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:47PM (#33216330)

I'll take the bet. I pay you when it "never" does, and you pay me if it ever does. How does $1 and $100 sound?

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Re:Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related me... by ProjectArcturis on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:09PM (#33216571)

Engineers are the worst.

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Re:Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related me... by qart on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:03PM (#33217601)

The bet might work in your favor. Lots of candiate drugs are discarded for reasons like... having harmful side-effects, being found useless, etc.

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Re:Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related me... by computerphage on Sunday October 16, 2022 @02:29AM (#33221530)

Just because something is dismissed today as a promising candidate doesn't prove it'll never be used for something else in the far future. Many toxic drugs later found use in chemotherapy for cancer; it was suddenly good they were toxic

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Re:Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related me... by RichardCNormos on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:14PM (#33217176)

I, too, keep my specifics in the pedantry.

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