(((Yeah, sure! Wahoo! I’m sure the planet’s vast waves of pre-senile boomers will be lining up around the Kiev medical blocks to literally inject their brains with Ukrainian buckminsterfullerenes… Wait a minute, now that I’ve written that out, that actually SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE. If it works on rats, who WOULDN’T

want to oil their aging brains with hydrated nanocarbon soccerballs?)))

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Link: Smart Economy: Cure for & preventive treatment against Alzheimer’s disease on the Horizon using Hydrated Fullerenes.

“Our in vivo investigations demonstrated also that a single intracerebroventricular injection of the C60 hydrated fullerene at a dose of 7.2 nmol/ventricle significantly improved the performance of the cognitive task in control rats. The intracerebroventricular injection of the C60 hydrated fullerene (3.6 nmol/ventricle) prevented the impairment of performance of the cognitive task induced by amyloid-ß25-35 (22.5 nmol/ventricle). The results obtained may be useful in the development of therapy of Alzheimer’s disease.”

(((And that’s not all! Just look at the glittering host of nanocarbon panaceas here!)))

“This group; lead by Dr Andrievsky G.V., is in the stage of scaling up from a limited laboratory benchtop production capability to planning a startup to manufacture hydrated fullerenes (HyFn’s) for medical and nonmedical applications.

“Several exciting potential market applications exist for HyFn’s –either as

sales of a reagent grade solution for experimental lab work sold to other scientists & labs around the world,

a totally new niche/market of health drinks (as a preventive anti-oxidant, health drink ) (((“NanoCola”… Coca-Cola was originally a patent medicine, y’know)))

health supplement

for pre-clinical and clinical trials for patients with cancer, alcohol addiction, (((climb back on the wagon by guzzling nanocarbon))) Alzheimer’s, viral and bacterial infections such as HIV, (((yeah, let’s do in AIDS while we’re at it))) Avian Flu, (((plus killing off epidemics that haven’t even started yet))) atherosclerosis activity (blood clots), diabetes, asthma etc any disease that has an inflammatory component in its pathway (and a whole new “extreme” medical tourism market once it gets approval)…”

(((“Once it gets approval?” Why bother? If you’re gonna cure AIDS and Alzheimers with a few sips of Ukrainian nanotechnology, the boys from the FDA are gonna be first in line.)))