Again mice models...
> Again mice models... Do you have a viable alternative for early stage research?
Alternative is to stop making headlines about mice models, because it's just completely ridiculous at this stage.
‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
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#102Again mice models...
What does “Again” refer to? Was something similar already published? Or you meant “Yet another mice models?
"yet another headline that assumes that mice models have any bearing on humans". It's actually the other way around, very rarely do mice models results replicate in humans.
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This is absolutely in the moral gray. The greater good, lesser of two evils, however you want to describe it whether it's right or wrong will get down to your personal beliefs. I had a family member involved in a cancer research that used mice and although he admitted it was sad, he did call them heroes. Understandably, I don't think that satisfies anyone strongly aligned with animal rights. In many other sciences we…
A hero makes heroic choices. These mice aren't making choices.
Indeed. No more than any other farm animal really.
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I would guess things like how nerves and bones work is more similar across species than, say, how drugs might work on the brain, where a mouse brain is a hell of a lot different to human. Is that a reasonable assumption?
If there is a difference, we’ll learn what the difference is, and if there’s another one after that the same, and so on.
Right, exactly! You expressed it much better than I did. :)