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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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