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This research is awe inspiring in its brilliance. The fact that humans had this perverse reaction to it is absolutely fascinating to me. And it is in a service
by areoform 5y ago
This research is awe inspiring in its brilliance. The fact that humans had this perverse reaction to it is absolutely fascinating to me. And it is in a service to a greater cause.
I am happy that this work was done. We need to do more!
edit: This comment is positive on purpose. The default pessimism in these comments is unwarranted. And the research has a lot of potential. Some foreseeable. Some not.
For e.g., A lot of comments are making remarks such as, "it just shows male blood is detrimental to pregnancy." However, this isn't what the research shows.
The research demonstrates that certain proteins are required to sustain the pregnancy. That's a fairly remarkable insight. Isolating these proteins, specifying them, and then attempting to measure the precise amounts of these should help to reduce miscarriages of intentional pregnancies in our species.
That's an amazing development. It's a useful model with significant applications.
- goatlover 5y agoIt's repulsive and horrible to the rats. We wouldn't want it done to us.
- mjfl 5y agonot really. They mostly showed that male blood interferes with normal female pregnancy. They could have done this through less invasive, more precise means, like transfusion, which would have allowed them to select precisely what part of male blood they would add back in.
- ViViDboarder 5y ago> And it is in a service to a greater cause. Which is? The argument presented by scientists in the article is that they don’t believe it offers anything useful.
- hall0ween 5y agoThis comment must be bait.