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not really, if your goal is to have a therapeutic research base you can reorient to humans. we’ve cured MS and sepsis in rats like 20 times now. Doesn’t mean m
by hprotagonist 5y ago
not really, if your goal is to have a therapeutic research base you can reorient to humans.
we’ve cured MS and sepsis in rats like 20 times now. Doesn’t mean much for us.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoDogs are much closer to humans as a model organism. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068608/ "The most notable benefit of using the dog for genetic studies is that dogs get many of the same diseases as humans, with a similar frequency, and the same genetic factors are often involved."
- hprotagonist 5y agoit entirely depends, of course, on what you're modeling. My home field uses chinchillas a lot. Cardiologists use pigs. etc.