Flip of Single Molecular Switch Makes Old Brain Young

Scientific Computing ^ | Wed, 03/06/2013 - 1:56pm

[null and void]

Perhaps the only way to reach an old liberal new tricks...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’m ready for my molecular switch to switch.

[ilovesarah2012]

This sounds very exciting. Hopefully it could help with Alzheimer’s.

[Fzob]

But we know amazingly little about what happens in the brain during late adolescence

Based on raising three children the think the answer is the brain switches off during late adolescence. Then turn on in the early twenties. Other than that this old bran can use a few new switches. Bring it on.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, me too.

I can remember stuff from 20+ years ago,...but not where I laid my glasses down.

[Red_Devil 232]

Before switching my switch, please up date my body so it can keep up!

[Cold Heart]

“old bran” Freudian slip there? :)

[VoiceOfBruck]

That’s all we need - a bunch of old men thinking they’re young again. Oh wait, most of us already do ... :)

[Slings and Arrows]

Now Yale School of Medicine researchers have reversed the process, recreating a youthful brain that facilitated both learning and healing in the adult mouse.

[SunkenCiv]

That’ll be cool, and it’ll push up demand for minoxidil and boner pills.

Thanks null and void.

[muawiyah]

Although I don't increase my vocabulary at the rate a young child does, I never lost that ability to start picking up language quickly ~ which is strange since that's gone in most everybody by the time they're 30 or so.

This research points to a simple enzyme deficiency as the cause.

[SampleMan]

Why do I have the bad feeling that after billions of dollars in medical research, all we are going to succeed at is creating immortal mice?

[null and void]

Immortal Rats?

[right way right]

Ever noticed there are no more real cures being developed.
Not profitable.,

[Hardraade]

The NEW detergent. Now with FLIP, for all government brainwashing chores.

[rmlew]

That’ll be cool, and it’ll push up demand for minoxidil and boner pills.
In so far as Propecia causes ED, the desire of people to take a pill for hair has been a boon for Viagra et all. There is some interesting research with Prostaglandin D2, which may make minoxidil obsolete.

[Gator113]

The nice thing about fading memory is that as you get older, you tend to forget those things you did wrong in life.

It also makes it much easier to watch reruns.

[Windflier]

Don’t let the Obots know about this. They’ll demand a new provision in Obamacare that mandates a daily regimen for every adult American, so that they can all start thinking and voting like young skulls full of mush again.

[bgill]

Can we try it out on congress?

[newheart]

"But we know amazingly little about what happens in the brain during late adolescence."

Pretty much any parent of a teenager could have told you that.