Scientists in the US are claiming that the radiation from mobile phones may help to prevent Alzheimer's after it was found to reverse one of the causes of memory loss in mice.While it's easy to be cynical about these kind of stories, asking questions like how did the mice dial a number, it's worth remembering that one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in history was equally as unexpected. Penicillin was after all discovered by accident when Alexander Fleming left a Petri dish open by mistake and it was contaminated with mould.
That too was a first step and one hopes that this will be too. Whether
of course it means today's generation of mobile phone users will not
develop Alzheimer's is yet to be seen. If it did of course this might
help ease the burden on dementia care services.
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