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The crucial qualifier being “in mice”. Regardless it’s cool that this works in mice, but animal model results fail to generalize to humans more often than not.
by ummonk 5y ago
The crucial qualifier being “in mice”. Regardless it’s cool that this works in mice, but animal model results fail to generalize to humans more often than not.
- belter 5y agoCould be, but apparently we are 98% mice: "Just 2.5% of DNA turns mice into men" https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-2-5-of-dna-turns-mice-into-men/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-2-5-of-dna-...
- vnchr 5y agoWe share 60% DNA with bananas. Bananas don’t get cancer. Cancer must come from the other 40%.
- belter 5y agoYou will find that your statement is not as controversial as you probably wanted to make it:-)
- bsder 5y agoAnd, yet, the vast majority of drugs effective in mice fail in humans. That 2.5% kinda matters ... a lot.