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shermantanktoptoday at 8:07 PM1 replyview on HN

HN posts about mouse studies always trigger a bunch of skepticism. I’m a layperson so it’s hard to separate the informed comments from me-too contrarians.

Are there areas of medicine where mouse models have a much higher or lower success rate in human trials?


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okaramtoday at 8:28 PM

There's two issues, success rate (about 5%) and time ... even if it is successful in humans, it will be 5 to 10 years before it's available (and 20-30 before it's affordable)

This is not being a contrarian, but a realist.

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