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If the causal mechanism in Alzheimer's is not clear, what's to say it isn't about 20 or 20000 different things going wrong in ways and proportions which are ver
by dsign 1y ago
If the causal mechanism in Alzheimer's is not clear, what's to say it isn't about 20 or 20000 different things going wrong in ways and proportions which are very specific to each individual?
I'm not criticizing basic research, which I consider immensely useful. Rather, the way we expect for it to become magical drugs. The peak of contradiction is posing that humans are inscrutable creations of God who wills us to age and die miserably, and in the same breath also wanting to have a neat repair handbook indicating fixed doses of the same drugs for each symptom--as if we were some cheap car model that comes without spares nor OBD port, and that it's only serviced at the end. I think we need to solve that.
- w10-1 1y ago> what's to say it isn't about 20 or 20000 different things going wrong In this case, the therapy resulted in old mice performing like young mice (in addition to the amyloid-beta level reducing).
- anon84873628 1y agoWell they synthesized a magic molecule that mimics an endogenous compound that stops functioning in the diseased systems. Everyone agrees with you. The whole era is "precision medicine".