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And in a lot of cases, these headlines talk about some amazing discovery, only for it to not actually apply to humans.
by jedberg 4y ago
And in a lot of cases, these headlines talk about some amazing discovery, only for it to not actually apply to humans.
- Teever 4y agoDoes this generality apply to this specific situation? Do you even know? Does the generic 'yah but it sez in mouse' really add anything to the conversation? I'd love to hear from an expert on the subject, thats why I'm on HN.
- kerowak 4y agoI’m not sure what your objection is. The article pretty clearly qualifies its assertions that this phenomenon is observed in mice. Are you saying there is no possible way that these results could be recapitulated in humans?
- jedberg 4y agoI'm saying that we see article after article about breakthrough findings in mice, only to find out later that it doesn't apply to humans, and therefore findings in mice aren't particularly interesting news.
- pazimzadeh 4y agoExcept when they do apply to humans. For example, intracellular bacterial communities formed by uropathogenic E. coli were observed in mice before humans.