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Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice
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There used to be an r/inmice and there were a few dozen massive breakthroughs a year, but all were in mice.
I don’t condone we do this level of testing on humans without all the research that goes into mice, but how funny would it be if we find a way to breed super-intelligent, anti-cancer, anti-aging, super-fertile (and never bald) mice only for them to take over and consume all resources (and us) before we can apply the same science to ourselves? It would be the most unexpected apocalypse.
So you're saying that just a couple of lab mice could start a successful campaign to take over the world?
Pat_RiotDouglas Adams was right. Humans are the third most intelligent species, behind mice and dolphins.
Curious CanidI, for one, welcome our new rodent overlords. Although I'm kind of hoping for dogs instead.
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All these scientists care about is mice. When will they realize people matter too? \s
wwHd?
Good thing you put that /s in there. I would never have realized this was a joke.
In this economy?
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Are they giving mice Alzheimers????
The "mouse models" are lab mice genetically engineered to get Alzheimer's, or in short: yes
It's because of all the vaccines
I get your humor
https://xkcd.com/1217/
Killing and reversing are different levels of difficult.
I always wonder whether they have a path of scientific testing and are trying to achieve a specific outcome or are they just creating pills with different mixes of molecular chains and trying to discover what the pills might do.
Both actually - this is called "drug repurposing" where they systematically screen existing drugs (that we already know are safe-ish) against disease models to find new uses, which is way faster and cheeper than developing new compounds from scratch.
What a great time to be a mouse!
"Already approved by regulators in the US "
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Older, now-generic drugs. Los of companies produce and sell them for other purposes.
Imagine Tylenol is found to cure a disease.
Tylenol is already approved, with known conditions under which it is safe and not safe.
Therefore, it is easier and safer to test a new use for Tylenol than starting from scratch testing a previously unknown drug.
Due to an unforseen supply issue, Tylenol is now $1000 a bottle.
Mice get Alzheimer's??? What other animals do?
What, again?