A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging, Alzheimer

Re:A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that r... by AlexErrant on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:13PM (#41140063)

I agree, but the pedant in me wants to point out that

> despite a century of throwing every possible thing at them without holding back

is incorrect. IACUCs exist for a reason. We do hold back.

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Re:A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that r... by ClumsyPilot on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:57PM (#41141044)

Also, a century? What did we have a century ago?

MRI was only invented in 1977, first commercial CT scanner came out in 1970’s, same for ultrasound. Before 1970’s we didn’t have antiviral drugs or DNA sequencing

Medicine a hundred years ago was brutal and medieval

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Re:A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that r... by moffkalast on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:04PM (#41141621)

Believe it or not, lab mice have been used for medical research for over 150 years.

We're all high and mighty with our moderns scanners, yet we still do surgery with chisels and hammers, drill teeth, put broken bones in plaster, have sick people congregate all in one place so they get infected with each other's diseases plus get some antibiotic resistant bacteria or two on top. And well, whatever the hell they do in the ER. Medicine is still pretty brutal when it comes down to it.

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Re:A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that r... by ClumsyPilot on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:38PM (#41142411)

That may be so, but it's absolutely fundamental to know where to cut, and to cut in the right place. How are you going to diagnose cancer at an early stage if you have no way to scan and detect anything? Exploratory surgery?

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