r/longevity • u/chromosomalcrossover • 14d ago

Boosting brain’s waste removal system improves memory in old mice

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/boosting-brains-waste-removal-system-improves-memory-in-old-mice/
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u/Evilsushione 14d ago

There actually is a contest for extending mouse lifespan. It’s called the Methuselah mouse prize. I believe that have had some success but not immortality yet.

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u/rimaarts 14d ago

Now that is cool! 

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u/ILL_Show_Myself_Out 12d ago

They could've called it Mousthuselah.

Eh maybe it's better with the alliteration.

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u/Lepobakken 14d ago

Well we give them the disease first, next we test the cure, than we kill them and dissect them to proof we cured them. So it’s kind of their Fath to die.