alt Hacker NewsAlso “mouse models”.
The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.
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Vaslo • today at 7:06 PM
They’re mice. I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about them.
oceansky • today at 12:38 PM
For this particular research, it's possible as only 5% of mouse experiments become available to humans.
But a lot of life-saving medicaments and techniques started as mouse testings, including Penicillin, cancer drugs and the polio vaccine.
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