nec209 Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) A researcher with the name of Dr. Million Mulugeta might have found a way to make a million or much more. It's very early yet but Dr. Mulugeta of UCLA reports that while conducting a study on stress he and his research team managed to find a cure for baldness in mice. They released their findings in February of 2011. Dr. Mulugeta says the compound they used on the mice was not intended to do anything at all for hair loss, or rather fur loss, but for stress. The mice had experienced their hair/fur loss while being genetically altered to produce extra stress hormones for the purposes of the research. Read more at Suite101: Feb. 2011 Study: Hair Loss in Mice Reversed, Human Tests Next http://www.suite101.com/content/feb-2011-study-hair-loss-in-mice-reversed-human-tests-next-a353659#ixzz1FKOsM9x6 ===================================================================== ===================================================================== ===================================================================== Wow what does this mean for people that have little to no hair? Edited March 1, 2011 by nec209 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadef7 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 thats so interesting, but i've always been curious why do we use mice as test subjects? does it have to be certain types of mice? why dont we use monkeys? and is any of it illegal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genecks Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 (edited) Primates, if I remember correctly, tend to deal with stress differently than other mammals. At least, some people have been hypothesizing this as of late. thats so interesting, but i've always been curious why do we use mice as test subjects? does it have to be certain types of mice? why dont we use monkeys? and is any of it illegal? It tends to be illegal to import particular mammals into the US (UCLA is a U.S. institution), which can include primates. Furthermore, it tends to be illegal to work on primates. I believe there is more leniency on working with rodents than primates (more so, because rodents are easily reproducible and have a short generation time; and primates are not and do not). I do know that various academic institutions use primates for research purposes. It would appear that particular laws allow for research on primates... but at the same time, it's not easy to get permission nor the primates themselves in order to do research. 42 C.F.R. § 71.53 Nonhuman primates Edited March 3, 2011 by Genecks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marat Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Mouse research is almost always profoundly misleading in its implications for humans. Diabetes, for example, has been cured dozens of times in mice by methods which then proved to be utterly ineffective in humans. Cats are so neurologically distinct from people that they fall dead asleep when injected with noradrenalin, and their response to many neuroleptics is the very opposite from what happens in humans. The main problem with using animals that are more like people is that they are very much more expensive to use than mice and then breed very much more slowly. Guinea pigs are now being inappropriately neglected as a model for human disease and physiology, since they are more like us in their inability to produce their own vitamin C, which most animals (e.g., dogs) can do without dietary sources of the vitamin. But the link between stress and baldness is anecdotally interesting, since it seems that type A men are more likely to be bald, while more hirsute characters (with the exception of Hitler and Stalin) tend to be more relaxed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 "type A men are more likely to be bald, while more hirsute characters (with the exception of Hitler and Stalin) tend to be more relaxed." You should never make sweeping generalisations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marat Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 It's also important to read all the words carefully: "anecdotally" and "it seems" rather than "it is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadef7 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 are mice's genes and dna similar to humans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Skeptic Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 are mice's genes and dna similar to humans? All species are similar to humans, some more than others. This is why we can apply, say, studies of yeast to humans. Mice are more similar to humans than many animals, since we share a fairly recent common ancestor, the mammals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadef7 Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 why are humans so dominant in the world, why are we able to talk and communicate than lol are we from monkeys or whats that piece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nec209 Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Other one of those things that stress can cause thin hair , little hair ,lack hair or baldness. Next it be smoking or drinking = thin hair , little hair ,lack hair or baldness than next smoking pot or not exercising. What joke science has become today and most people will pay millions of dollars for drug = lots of hair. why are humans so dominant in the world, why are we able to talk and communicate than lolare we from monkeys or whats that piece? Well humans have way more health problems than any other living thing do to modern healthcare took evolution out of the picture.The week and sick die and stong and tough live and we evolve to over come cancer ,autoimmune disease and other health problems . Some other living things live way longer than people. Look at modern world full health problems people in 20`s or 30`s have so much health problems now it sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Skeptic Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Well humans have way more health problems than any other living thing do to modern healthcare took evolution out of the picture.The week and sick die and stong and tough live and we evolve to over come cancer ,autoimmune disease and other health problems . Some other living things live way longer than people. Look at modern world full health problems people in 20`s or 30`s have so much health problems now it sick. Nonsense; we just increased our evolvability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nec209 Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Nonsense; we just increased our evolvability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvability Cancer and autoimmune disease was not a problem 100 years ago has most people would not live to 40`s and using evolution or god way there was no old people or nursery homes has people would be dead way before they got old. All modern medicine is doing is keeping us on life support system but are body clock is saying we should be dead.Put it other way evolution or god what ever you want to call it people body was not built to live past age 40 and surely not to age 60's. Well obesity ,diabetes and being fat is do to the modern world we live in.Well for infectious disease that do to people that go to ER for every time they get sick and those people should be locked in jail for doing this. And also stong and tough people are breeding with weak people this does not help too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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