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To: neverdem
This technique could work for other cells along the G.I. tract from your mouth to your behind.

If you were a mouse. The diabetes researchers who I've heard speaking on the topic are quite clear in their comments about the difficulty of transferring mouse results to humans. It'd be great if this transferred, but I'm betting this is another example where mouse results are good for mice, and nobody else.

8 posted on 06/20/2008 10:22:54 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
It'd be great if this transferred, but I'm betting this is another example where mouse results are good for mice, and nobody else.

If it doesn't work in mice, there's no hope of it working in humans. You have to get proof of principle in mammals first. Bigger critters are usually next after rodents, then primates, IIRC, before phase I FDA trials.

10 posted on 06/20/2008 11:03:10 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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