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		glenstein on Dec 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cance... I'm not sure it follows that high incidences of cancer means that it's unhelpful to use them for research to understand the mechanisms of cancer. And I'm not sure that either of your observations one or two are pertinent in this case as it applies to the on/off protein switch, as it is not about guaging the statistical frequency of cancers or about killing cancer cells.

cyberax on Dec 23, 2023 [–]

Murine models are not unhelpful, just very tricky. Quite a few experimental data turned out to be incorrect because experiments were poorly conducted.

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