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Re:Autism's social deficits in animal model are reversed by an anti-ca...
on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:59PM (#16581028)
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-blocking-enzyme-lin...
The above mentioned study links raising HDAC2 to reverse effects of Alzheimer's disease.
I doubt that the autism study with mice really 'cured' autism. I think the cancer drug reduced cognitive abilities, so mice seemed to react 'normal'.
Re:Scientists discover the first brainless animal that sleeps
on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:25PM (#15307499)
We're talking about the most primitive specisms here which are thought to be the very beginning of multicell life itself.
Predators which hunt at night occured later (another heretic thought).
Re:Scientists discover the first brainless animal that sleeps
on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:00PM (#15307300)
In my humble opinion every animal consistent of multiple cells alive on this planet developed sleep for just one reason: the very same reason plants sleep. Our planet has a night phase and without sun little energy is left. So as a consequence the best one can do is to clean up internal processes or go into some sort of energy saving mode. Ofc this is heretic to some individuals...
But Ockham's razor tells me I'm right.