Scientists Find Secret Key to Brain Power and Fighting Cancer

For 30 years, scientists were puzzled about how a special nutrient called queuosine [a rare substance that makes your brain stronger and helps fight sickness] gets into your body's cells. Finally, they discovered the secret gate keeper—a gene called SLC35F2—that lets this amazing nutrient inside! Now doctors might be able to create new medicines to make our brains healthier and help fight diseases, which means your body could have superpowers you never knew about.