questionname t1_j9ydovd wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:53 PM

Reply to A custom 100-pound laptop with a 43-inch screen by thebelsnickle1991

The weights more than a standard desktop and monitor.

questionname OP t1_izxdpt4 wrote on December 12, 2022 at 3:41 PM

Reply to comment by Turbulent_Neck3942 in Just a slight flurry and everything goes red by questionname

Ugh, sorry

questionname t1_ixpzpfl wrote on November 25, 2022 at 11:46 AM

Reply to A relic from the past by MesaVerde87

Wasn’t it a stabbing murder that finally closed the place down? Good times.

questionname t1_iw4xclm wrote on November 13, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Reply to How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1

It depends. For a pharmaceutical treatment, they will inject it, adjust dosage for the weight and type of animal, and observe the outcome. If it’s cancer, see how large the tumor is.

If it’s a medical device, a large animal model is used. What animal is very dependent on the part of body you are studying. Cardiovascular tends to be a pig or sheep or dog model. The harder part is giving it a disease, since heart disease tends to develop after decades of life span and poor QoL, so Doctors and researchers try to find a way to restrict blood flow, increase heart rate to induce heart failure, inject chemicals that kills the muscle cells. There’s no perfect way but a lot of money goes into developing a method.