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Why is this being called a "model"?
by pera 11y ago
Why is this being called a "model"?
- streptomycin 11y agoBecause the word "model" is very overloaded. In this context, it means something like http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/modelsys.html http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/modelsys.html So yeah, it sucks that when you read a headline, you don't know if it's talking about an animal model, an in vitro model, a computational model, or something in between. But that's how it is. They're all models.
- jmount 11y agoStandard medical terminology. For example a rat with burned lungs could be "a model for human asthma" (probably not a good one).