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Mon 2 Apr, 2012 05:32 am
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Comfy Mice Lead to Better Science: Are Cold Mice Affecting Drug Testing?
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2012) — Nine out of 10 drugs successfully tested in mice and other animal models ultimately fail to work in people, and one reason may be traced back to a common fact of life for laboratory mice: they're cold, according to a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
@oristarA,
"Cold" here means "cold". Opposite of "hot".
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
"Cold" here means "cold". Opposite of "hot".
But why the title says "
Comfy Mice Lead to Better Science"?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
contrex wrote:
"Cold" here means "cold". Opposite of "hot".
But why the title says "
Comfy Mice Lead to Better Science"?
"Comfy" is an infantile contraction of "comfortable" it carries extra implications of warmth and snugness. This was Science Daily, not an academic journal. If you or I were in a cold place, we might feel cold and therefore uncomfortable, but that does not mean that "cold" is a synonym for "uncomfortable". Humans have language and can say that they are comfortable or uncomfortable; mice do not.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
oristarA wrote:
contrex wrote:
"Cold" here means "cold". Opposite of "hot".
But why the title says "
Comfy Mice Lead to Better Science"?
"Comfy" is an infantile contraction of "comfortable" it carries extra implications of warmth and snugness. This was Science Daily, not an academic journal. If you or I were in a cold place, we might feel cold and therefore uncomfortable, but that does not mean that "cold" is a synonym for "uncomfortable".
Humans have language and can say that they are comfortable or uncomfortable; mice do not.
Thank you Contrex.
But if the reason " Humans have language and can say that they are comfortable or uncomfortable; mice do not" stands, the expression "comfy mice" is not proper?
@oristarA,
Quote:But why the title says "Comfy Mice Lead to Better Science"?
Because the author is stating the premise of the article in the title. If mice were in a more comfortable situation, ie. not cold, the test results would be more accurate.
'cold' does mean 'cold' but it entails uncomfortable living conditions.
@oristarA,
It's just a cutesy headline Oristar me dearie. You're overanalyzing it.
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