• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    wow. now imagine we made this discovery in 2006 and stemcell research wasn’t hindered by christofascists.

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    17 hours ago

    I would like to see a how long scientists can keep a mouse alive using all the medical breakthroughs they have tested for mice.

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    related research:

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3368614/chinese-drug-loberamisal-extends-stroke-treatment-window-6-hours-2-days

    Chinese drug loberamisal extends stroke treatment window from 6 hours to 2 days

    “The large-scale multicentre phase 3 trial found that 70 per cent of patients who received loberamisal intravenously within two days of a stroke regained complete functional independence – an increase of 13 percentage points over standard care alone.”

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      19 hours ago

      So many people scoff at Traditional Chinese Medicine, but they’ve made some huge advancements in modern times!

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        17 hours ago

        What part of this is “traditional”? You just read Chinese and assumed martial arts and alchemy or something?

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    1 day ago

    Any progress in stroke research is helpful. After seeing the aftermath of a couple family members having strokes, to say it’s life changing isn’t adequate. Truly terrible.

  • tpihkal@lemmy.world
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    A lot of money being wasted to find cures for mice. Maybe they should work on finding cures for people instead.

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        24 hours ago

        They have a point. Mouse model research translation to human disease has a poor track record. Mouse model labs spin in circles between models and never try to translate into humans. Some diseases stall for decades in models.

        The mouse’s brain plasticity is orders of magnitude higher than a human’s.

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      Do you volunteer to have a stroke induced so researchers then can test their treatment?

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          22 hours ago

          Nurse: “Sir, would you like to try this new and experimental treatment, or do you prefer proven methods?” Stroke victim: “Hhhrrrngn!” Nurse: “I’m sorry, what was that?” Stroke victim: "Hhhhhhhrhghn!!! Hrhh … " *dies*

          Great idea, Sherlock!

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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      I spent a career in research and I can tell you that mice are excellent models for discovery, AMA

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        24 hours ago

        mice are excellent models for discovery

        Not really. What’s the translate rate to humans? 9%?

        Mice can model some diseases well, but they are not universally good models.

        • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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          24 hours ago

          Not universal, for example we use zebrafish for spine defect models since mouse spine has an odd curve/hunch that doesn’t line up as well. But for general metabolism/pathology/embryonic development they do a great job of mimicking human disease under the microscope. Its not always 1:1 but we learn a lot from these little guys.

    • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yes, this research would move so much faster if we simply induced strokes in people and injected them with stuff to see what happens… /s

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    Nice, still waiting for teeth regrowth, colonoscopy not involving fingers up my ass or a diet drug available for me tho. Feels like this shit wont hit market until the planet has been literally cooked.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    If they can perfect the saftey switch they talk about in the article. Then maybe stem cells for the brain will be like vitamins. Cause damage to like the blood brain barrier is hard to detect, but seems to be present in a decent number of “syndromes”. Like autism for one. It would be nice if they understood the why and how’s, but that could be decades away.