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Harvard Researchers Discover New Life-Saving Potential in Alzheimer’s Drug


New research on tadpoles shows that the FDA-approved drug donepezil induces a reversible torpor-like state in the animals. Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have successfully induced a hibernation-like torpor state in Xenopus laevis tadpol

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