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A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise

  • Written by Yunfeng Lu, Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Keep the buzz. Lose the hangover.By bogdanhoda/Shutterstock.com

“Civilization begins with distillation,” said William Faulkner, a writer and drinker. Although our thirst for alcohol dates back to the Stone Age, nobody has figured out a good way to deal with the ensuing hangover after getting drunk.

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