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'Historic Breakthrough' in Alzheimer's Research

This great news. My son in law's mother has this terrible sickness.
 
ReformCollege said:
There is also the possibility that they are just pushing headlines and this "discovery" is dramatically overstated. Don't count your eggs before they hatch ;D
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Its not a possibility. Its a certainty. If I had a penny for every time a drug worked in a specific animal model target and failed spectacularly in humans, I'd be a wealthy man.

For a better perspective on the science of this one and the severe limitations, not to mention the fact that actually getting a drug that works IF this is real will be roughly a decade long process, read my favorite medicinal chemists blog:

In the Pipeline:
 
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