National Geographic
Working in the laboratory of neuroscientist Nigel Greig, Li and her colleagues test drugs on injured cells in dishes, run mice and rats through mazes, and look at their brains. They are trying to find out if treatment with certain drugs might reduce the devastating effects of dementia or brain injury. And the latest drug they’re testing? Seems to work. What’s surprising is the drug in question. Li has been dosing the mice with one of the GLP-1 agonist drugs—the suddenly-everywhere class of drugs that includes Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.
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