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Rikudou | 4 months ago

For one hundredth goddamn time: Mice don't have Alzheimer's. They can't ever get it and almost none of the successes scientists achieve with the mice illness that has nothing to do with Alzheimer's except similar symptoms are reproducible in humans at all.

I really wish the news sites would get it correctly from time to time, this is misleading as hell.

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gcanyon|4 months ago

> The researchers tested their approach in mice genetically programmed to overproduce Aβ and develop cognitive decline similar to Alzheimer’s pathology.

Thoughts on that FTFA?