• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    It says injecting the viral expression fixed the inhibition when they tried it on monkeys in the study. The headline says it was disrupted with a drug. Well what was the drug? The injection mentioned. It doesn’t sound nice. There’s also a Nature summary/clickbait article saying about the same things as the Wired article. I saw the Nature one first.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00062-5

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      1 day ago

      This sounds pretty standard as far as research goes. There’s experiments of a billion things done in animals which only prove or help understand how mechanisms work. From there to saying, “this is the exact same method we’ll use on people, this is practically done” it rarely happens that straight away. You have at least a decade on average of trials and ways to figure out which drugs are appropriate for release.

      Unless you quote me a snippet from any of these articles in which the scientists are expressly saying “we are hoping to use a similar virus on people” I’d say you are jumping to conclusions.

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        23 hours ago

        It evokes the idea. Maybe not for everyone, but obviously for some.