BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.
It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.
"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."
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And the way you test the memory of a fruit fly is....What? Let them play Jeopardy on TV?
What they do is pair an odor with a mild electric shock, training the flies to avoid the odor, and subsequently measuring the flies' ability to remember to avoid the odor.
Kinda like how they teach truck drivers to avoid New Jersey.
And it works, too.
I'm never going NEAR New Jersey ever again!
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