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the innominate one
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by the innominate one » 21 Nov 2017, 18:37
Very interesting, and there has previously been some discussion a few years ago about differences in model animals' reaction by the sex of the researchers. I wonder if the animals used in this experiment you linked were all-male, as is typical for research, and if the reaction to researcher sex is consistent or opposite between the sexes of the specimens.
Isn't this thus likely another case where mouse models don't apply to humans?
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by thoreau » 21 Nov 2017, 18:51
Let's talk about what REALLY matters: How can we fit this into American academia's fucked up "conversations" about gender and STEM?
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by thoreau » 21 Nov 2017, 18:54
More seriously, I wonder what other odors are affecting the results of mouse experiments. Does the lunch that the grad student ate before handling the mouse matter for certain experiments? What if the postdoc has a cat at home? What if the grad student is wearing perfume? Or a scented deodorant? The list could go on. There might be all sorts of sources of noise that we're not even aware of, experiments explained by the fact that the postdoc who handled the mice was taking care of a baby who threw up a lot.
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the innominate one
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by the innominate one » 21 Nov 2017, 19:12
Good points. Maybe live animal specimens should consistently be handled in glove boxes, at a minimum.
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by dbcooper » 02 Dec 2017, 20:24
Looking to cure Type 1 diabetes, investors front $114M to launch a pioneering human study at Semma
Three years ago, Harvard’s Doug Melton published a landmark study outlining how he had successfully used stem cells to create insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells that were inserted in bulk into mice and successfully protected from an immune response — a breakthrough in regenerative medicine that bore real promise to provide a curative approach for Type 1 diabetes that could conceivably end a lifetime of insulin shots.
It was the culmination of 23 years of lab work, launched when his son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. And that achievement marked the beginning of something new in biotech.
26 years and counting of work ...
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by JD » 11 Dec 2017, 15:16
NASA and Google have some big announcement to make on Thursday, but they're being all coy about exactly what it is:
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by Kolohe » 11 Dec 2017, 16:28
It's probably not aliens.
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