Letter: Vlad the infuser

Published 31 October 2012

From Andrew Clifton

So, infusions of young blood keep older brains healthy – in mice, at least (20 October, p 10). Would this suggest that Dracula, with his taste for the blood of young virgins, was on to a good thing?

Edgware, Middlesex, UK

Issue no. 2889 published 3 November 2012

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