One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost - eviltoast

An early experiment suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory.

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    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.