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The breeding DID increase their ability to repair damage to toxicity, at the cost of all getting cancer, but after the age at which they were bred to live to.
by mikewarot 4y ago
The breeding DID increase their ability to repair damage to toxicity, at the cost of all getting cancer, but after the age at which they were bred to live to.
If you take a wild mouse, and feed it, it'll live a long time, the lab mice will eventually get cancer everywhere, and die of cancer. (or so the claim goes)
- refurb 4y agoDo you have a source to show that inbreed mice have higher resistance to toxic drugs? I’d be interested to read it.
- mikewarot 4y agoI'm relaying what I understand to be the truth, which obviously could be wrong. The pieces seem to be out there, as near as I (a person who never studied biology) can tell Example: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818211009844 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818211009... Telomere Length and Arsenic: Improving Animal Models of Toxicity by Choosing Mice With Shorter Telomeres The abstract discusses telomere length and sensitivity to arsenic toxicity. If my understanding is wrong, I'd be interested in guidance to correct it. I'm interested in understanding how things really work, and Weinstein's explanations (before the Covid thing hit) made sense of otherwise paradoxical facts.