RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 4 days agoLithium Reverses Alzheimer's in Micehms.harvard.eduexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agoI 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
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