Alzheimer’s drug may someday help save lives by inducing a state of ‘suspended animation’

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Researchers have found that an Alzheimer’s drug, donepezil, can induce a safe and reversible torpor-like state in tadpoles of the Xenopus laevis species at room temperature. This ‘biostasis’ achievement could offer a way to slow down the human body’s processes and buy patients more time to survive critical injuries and diseases, even when disaster strikes far from a hospital.

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