Tokyo University of Science

[Matt Skiba]

Hey they got some pretty interesting stuff here:

http://www.tsuji-lab.com/en/research/hair/index.html.

They even say they got 100% succes rate... but it is on mice.

 

[somone uk]

got a long way to go then, but science is science, the problem is that mice have a completely different anatomy to humans and don't really do much in terms of useful information

 

[DHR]

interesting find

 

[moxsom]

got a long way to go then, but science is science, the problem is that mice have a completely different anatomy to humans and don't really do much in terms of useful information

We have learned so much about humans by studying mice. That was a misinformed statement if I've ever heard one...

 

[somone uk]

got a long way to go then, but science is science, the problem is that mice have a completely different anatomy to humans and don't really do much in terms of useful information

We have learned so much about humans by studying mice. That was a misinformed statement if I've ever heard one...

like warfarin is useful for DVT?

ok i correct myself they are useful in terms of finding whether or not a drug is fatally poisonous before human trials, or to a minimal extent if it's effective but they are not useful for male pattern baldness because.....mice don't get male pattern baldness (so "nizoral is a dht blocker look at this study done on mice" is false)
the fact of the matter is we know enougth about mice to grow ears on them but it doesn't mean i can chop off my ear and get a new one
reapplying this to humans will just take too long, people have already cloned hair on humans so why is managing to do it on mice such a big deal?
only a small proportion of medical science that passes the mouse test really makes it to the human test because of the vast differences of anatomy