• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    4 days ago

    I fucking hate titles like this. Mice don’t have Alzheimer’s, never had, never will*.

    IIRC we have selectively bred a line of mice with a genetical disease which has similar symptoms as Alzheimer’s, but it’s a very different disease.

    Only a tiny percentage of what they discover using mice is actually helpful for Alzheimer’s.

    This is like applying a COVID vaccine to treat flu just because they have some symptoms in common.

    * maybe