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In mice
by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
In mice
- baxtr 2mo agoMice smoke?
- theoreticalmal 2mo agoOnly the cool ones
- pasc1878 2mo agoWhen near the lab's Bunsen burner.
- kraquepype 2mo agoOnly if they grew up near a BBQ joint
- manarth 2mo ago> "Mice smoke?" The experiment summary: > "The team bred four strains of mice. > They then exposed the mice to a single dose of the liver carcinogen diethylnitrosamine (DEN). > DEN is found in tobacco smoke." They simulated the "consequences" of smoking in mice.
- htek 2mo agoMice are used for inhalation and skin studies because they're cheap, we know their genome, they have a short lifespan for whole lifecycle observation and they're ideal for mapping to human respiratory and skin responses.
- add-sub-mul-div 2mo agoThese comments are filled with people who believe that everyone else here is dumber than they are. Leaving shallow dismissive comments explaining something that doesn't need to be explained is like crack to them.
- manarth 2mo agoIt's a bit more than that. The migration from mouse models to human understanding is long and complex, and although it's a meme, "in mice" is a good shortcut for saying "This is a good start, but it's not ready to extrapolate into conclusions against the impact to human beings". https://www.in-mice.com/ https://www.in-mice.com/
- willy_k 2mo agoThat was a good example of their point, thank you!
- asdff 2mo agoSo sick of this fake "gotcha" qualifier in HN comment sections.