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... in mice

• mikece 6y ago
  Mice are used for medical testing of drugs all the time. A friend of mind who is both an MD and a PhD toxicologist tried to explain to me once why mice are ideal for testing drugs that could be used some day in humans but I sorta zoned out after five minutes (it was a social setting and I might have been drinking something if memory serves). When a study can be replicated and show statistically significant results then the study is moved to more "human like" subjects but when it comes to the way cancers and tumors work it's apparently 99.999% the same in mice as in humans.