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Cancer drug bexarotene shown to cure Alzheimer’s disease in mice

Immune system cancer drug Bexarotene has been shown to cure Alzheimer's disease in mice. (Photo Credit: CC BY/Dawn Huczek/Flickr)

Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio have made what they call an amazing advance in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Agence France-Presse reports that mice bred to have Alzheimer’s, when treated with the immune system cancer drug bexarotene, became measurably smarter within hours as brain plaque dissolved. Study findings were [...]

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LinkedIn and Pandora IPOs: Scams the banks always win

Online music service Pandora had its initial public stock offering today, and in the middle of the profiteering, Dan Primack of CNN Money suggested that the bankers responsible for the Pandora IPO may have scammed the company. Joe Nocera of the New York Times insisted the same thing happened the month before with career website [...]

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Was Pandora's IPO share price Morgan Stanley's effort to make up for a larger scam? (Photo Credit: CC BY-SA/Ross A. Reyman/Flickr)
Was Pandora's IPO share price Morgan Stanley's effort to make up for a larger scam? (Photo Credit: CC BY-SA/Ross A. Reyman/Flickr)

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