This I had never heard of:
"The problem in many of these cases was the rodents, or, maybe more accurately, that researchers had pinned their hopes on them. Mice and rats, the world’s most commonly used laboratory animals—creatures whose many biological similarities to us have enabled massive leaps in the treatment of HIV, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and more—are rather useless in one very specific context: They simply can’t throw up."
@schoppik Please tag me if you do!
@cyrilpedia sadly, I doubt I'll ever see it again. Even with search functionality I've got no memory of any keywords or what the thread was about. :(
I recall this one:
https://www.joinrats.com/RatHealth/PhysicalSymptoms/MouthBreathing/
ps: recently a neuroscientist after a lecture on lab model mice research, answered that one of the difficulties to translate their discoveries into humans —aside obvious huge diffs— were because lab mice models don't account for diversity!
@teixi That's not the one I had in mind but it's really interesting. And yes, the utility of homogeneity in some animal models comes with real tradeoffs.
@cyrilpedia there was a video circulating on twitter a few years ago of what looked like a rodent gagging. I wish I could find it again for this exact reason!