You need an "anti-stupid" pill?
BERLIN - 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."
