• GargleBlaster@feddit.org
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    25 days ago

    I’ll read the publication in the coming days and report back, but don’t get your hopes up. There’s a “breakthrough” in cancer research every few months and it leads to nothing. And this study was done in mice which are a bit different to humans (citation needed)

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      25 days ago

      They cured hair loss in mice at least twenty times now and we still have bald humans

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        25 days ago

        They should probably find a way to turn humans into mice. It’s a shame to leave billions of dollars on the table like that.

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          Might be a good concept for a sci fi story actually, probably a comedic one. Scientists learn how to cure any disease and reverse aging, but only for mice. Conveniently for plot reasons, they also figure out how to turn people into mice and back. You can get any disease cured or become young again…but you have to spend three months as a mouse.

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      I think this is overly negative. There have been multiple significant advances in cancer treatment over the past 10 years. It just depends which type you get.

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      Eh a lot of them save some lives. Its just cancer is really good at killing people and there are a lot of types of cancer