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Mrischief t1_j6uayiu wrote

It depends, showing promise in mice / or culture is one step. The next steps are harder, so yeeeeay for base science, but dont let it fool you to think it will be ready in a year (if memory serves, 5-10 years is the norm for drugs)

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SuperiorOnions t1_j6uhv8e wrote

If humans had mice as pets the way we do dogs, we could do some wild stuff with all this technology

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Mrischief t1_j6uzxq7 wrote

To be fair, the way we use experimental animals (and their service) is to have human like tissue with “faults” in them to get cancers etc. But for sure there would be some darn survivable mice and rats arouns

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ProtoplanetaryNebula t1_j6wi5pj wrote

It's a bit like planting trees. The ones you plant today will be mature in 10-20 years (just as an example, I know there are fast growing trees), the more you keep planting the more trees there will be around.

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