[welfare]

I think they meant join in the sense of yet another study performed on mice with promising results without any indication if it will work in humans.

Come back after clinical trials.

Breakthroughs in Alzheimer's seems like the medical equivalent of breakthroughs in battery tech.

[gdudeman]

I wish breakthroughs in Alzheimer's were like breakthroughs in battery tech. Batteries are getting dramatically cheaper and denser every year with a clear path for 10+ years of improvements.

Alzheimer's treatments today maybe slow cognitive decline by 3 months and cost a fortune.

[newzisforsukas]

... no one is calling this a breakthrough though?

The paper itself and the article on it both state it is in mouse models of disease within their titles.

Seems like many here bring up this point for no reason other than to repeat it over and over as a low-effort dismissal. It is exhausting to read these threads.

At the moment I am writing this, there is only a single comment about the actual article.