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One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost
(arstechnica.com)
Klotho improved their performance on the easier task by about 6 percent, and on the harder version by about 20 percent, Dubal says.
That's very encouraging for potential human trials! But also modest enough that we won't end up in The Planet of the Apes during the animal trial phase.
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