Literally nobody is making that argument
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xep@discuss.online 23 hours agoWe aren’t mice.
Comment on Is Your Gut Aging Your Entire Body? This New Study Explains How
xep@discuss.online 23 hours agoWe aren’t mice.
Literally nobody is making that argument
Post title is.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
For this kind of study, we are really not that much different from mice.
We share 97.5% of our DNA with mice. We share many similarities in our immune systems, brain, and yes even gut.
The study uses mice to try and find a mechanism of ageing in humans, and they test their theories on mice. They do find a mechanism! It is rather unlikely that the mechanism they find does not apply at all in humans.
If we didn’t use animal models to try and understand human biology our models, medicine, drugs, etc would be far far worse.
For example see: blood.ca/…/why-do-scientists-use-mice-medical