Mouse Studies Skepticism
Commenters repeatedly question the applicability of research findings from mouse experiments to humans, emphasizing differences between mice and people and the poor translation of results.
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In mice... Might or might not apply to humans.
I thought mice studies don't directly translate to humans..
Mice aren't people. Small sample size- sounds like they used only 8 mice?
Probably yet another mouse experiment that doesn’t transfer to humans.
This is covered everytime a study comes out, mice are similar to humanshttps://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-mouse-in-resear...Your comment that 'you're not a mouse so this doesn't apply' is an overly simplistic conclusion based solely on a visual observation that is repeated on Hackernews so often there needs to be a bot that
no, of course not, we've been using them in experiments just for shits and giggleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_mouse#Limitations
The abstract says they did mice experiments; so do they draw any conclusions for humans?
They did it in a "mouse model" does that mean it wasn't even a live mouse?
This! Mice are not quite the same as humans.
It's a well known fact that mice and humans promdominantly share the same genome, so this research should be taken with more than grain of salt, methinks.