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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by px43 on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:42AM (#30299340)
Funny enough, one of the original MRNA treatments developed my Moderna was something that would temporarily activate stem cell generation around heart tissue. Sounds like in testing, the mice that got the treatment after having a heart attack were much less likely to have subsequent heart attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-DMKNT7xI

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by hahajk on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:21AM (#30300100)
I was going to ask if anyone knew how they found mice for these studies. Do they choose mice they have on hand that naturally have had heart attacks? Would those mice be involved in other studies too?

But I ended up googling it and sort of wish I didn’t ask the question.

https://www.theawl.com/2016/04/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-heart-a...

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by NLMichel on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:25AM (#30301824)
Hopefully one day we'll have a perfect digital twin of the human body and can test drugs like this without harming animals..
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