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Heart disease 'reversed in mice'

news.bbc.co.uk — Scientists have halted the advance of heart disease in mice - and even reversed some of its effects. A US specialist said that, with trials under way in other animals, human tests may be only a few years away.

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  • sfhock, on 12/01/2008, -0/+29If humans were mice, we'd be ***** immortal by now...
  • Medicamusic, on 12/01/2008, -0/+18Scientists have cured almost everything in mice. Its too bad that human testing isnt allowed. I know a few people I'd like to recommend.
  • cr12345, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7If humans were mice, we'd be too busy looking for cheese and trying to avoid getting eaten by owls or snakes to be doing scientific research on cardiovascular disease.
  • smizacks02, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6mouse am legend
  • LukeBeaumont, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5Human testing is allowed if consent is given.
  • Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Stupid mice and their stupid universal coverage...
  • TMTurtle, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Mice are simply the projections of the hyperdimensional beings that created the Earth as a biological computer.
  • Zervaman, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Stem cell organ transplants, longer life spans, gene therapy, actually being able to run crysis...

    The future is looking awesome!
  • Barackalypse, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Take that all you health food advocates. Medical technology will fix whatever damage may have been done by my tasty diet, and at the end of it you'll have spent your lives eating over-priced, poor tasting, organic crap, while I will have enjoyed every single meal I ever ate.
  • robertbaker13, on 12/01/2008, -4/+7whatever. scientists can do anything 'in mice.'

    SCIENTISTS COLONIZE MARS IN MICE.
    SCIENTISTS REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING IN MICE.
    SCIENTISTS DEFEAT YANKEES 5-3 AFTER 11 IN MICE.
    SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HALF-DIGESTED MOUSE FOOD IN MICE.
    LONELY SCIENTIST FINDS LOVE IN MICE -- HUMAN TRIAL SCHEDULED FOR EARLY 2015.
  • liquisoft, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Pretty soon, mice are going to be so well-off that they'll open up their own laboratories and begin doing testing on humans.
  • Otnehs, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Stay tuned for next week folks, Digg cures cancer, again!
  • inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3you forgot the only rule of immortality!
  • HamstaMan, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3If they consent it shouldn't be considered cruel and unusual punishment. At least they would serve mankind in another way then dropping dead.
  • dext3r, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Oooh! Can I get a slice?
  • CVL4317, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2with all the heart failure-er roaming around, our genes will remain un-evolved though. Inhuman, but humans need a way to clean up the gene pool other than through darwin awards.
  • iammzac, on 12/01/2008, -2/+4Mice are nice eat rice play dice and are the spice of life.
  • ntopaz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2This is a great day for all mousekind.
  • gzmask, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3coz mice do not have religion
  • sockpuppets, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Finally my mice can live normal, healthy lives.
  • Sethbacca, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2C'mon now, play nice....
  • Medicamusic, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Well there would have to be enough of them with the same problem, though. Otherwise, their recovery could be seen as a fluke.
  • palehorse864, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Only if you put them on ice.
  • Fhwqhgads, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I hope Big Pharma, with the help of their marketing department, the FDA, can find a way to patent and profit from this. Otherwise it will be discredited and outlawed like the rest of their competition.
  • inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3We ought to try convicts. If they SURVIVE a test, then their sentences get reduced (or they even walk free.) Perhaps the first priority for the most lethal tests ought to be the death row inmates?
  • TMTurtle, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Douglas Adams would contend that they are.
  • inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1SOME OF US MAY NOT EVEN HAVE A FEW YEARS!!!!!

    (As for me though, I'm still as healthy as a horse.)
  • palehorse864, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2Yes, but they also have lice. :(
  • inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah if we will test some experiment mice will be the option first. Poor mice.
  • brokendalek, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1That would be such good news for such a lot of people!
  • Xyrx, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Hurry up... in a few years, I'll need this on my Dorito's-clogged artery's...
  • palehorse864, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I expressed similar sentiment in another DIGG article, but what a wonderful time it must be to be a mouse.

    Could the future hold this?
    http://www.gavinshearer.com/photos/weblog/2005_08_ ...
  • Zippo, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1So, scientists have pretty much cured cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc, etc... in mice. Must be good times for micekind.
  • HamstaMan, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Can't they kick it up a notch and do trials on pigs after mice. It may take a lot longer to see results but aren't they more like humans than mice?
  • argosfalcon, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1As I have heart disease I hope I live long enough to see this on the market, but by that time it will still cost too much for us old fools unless your rich.
  • eternalfuture, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Well, first, to reverse cancer (all kinds of cancer) in mice, then to reverse the aging process in mice (tempering with regenerative gene), then to create the talking mice, and next: to create the Mighty Mouse breed. And if humans are lucky, the mice won't turn against us and enslave us, or there will be Planet of the Mice.
  • MaxK, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Whew! Time for me to go invest in a carton of cigarettes!
  • directrix13, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Cheese? You realize mice don't survive on cheese right?
  • motters, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1This is exciting if true, but I've heard many such medical wonder stories over the years and most of them never become practical. There are many differences between humans and mice, and even if this result is genuine there could be a decade of additional testing to be done.
  • derekmas10, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Are you a man, or are you a MOUSE??!!!
  • YouAreDead, on 12/01/2008, -3/+3'reversed'
  • icefog, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0There is already a company -- miRagen -- that is developing MiRNA to be delivered to the heart -- . Wikipedia also has a good article on MiRNA --
  • newms32, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0A few decades from now, people will be genetically screening and modifying their unborn children for hundreds of genetic traits. Does that satisfy you?
  • inactive, on 12/01/2008, -4/+3Heart disease
  • rogueblade, on 12/01/2008, -4/+1I just googled female condom for the first time and man those things must suck
  • chlyon, on 12/01/2008, -4/+1If I hear another cure for cancer,aids, heart deases etc ready in 5 years article . Im going to kill someone perfectly healthy . I dont know why but like that kid who shot his father I might JUST DO IT


    Could you STFU until its ready and in stores . ( not that I suffer from any of these deasees but I might like to try to live on hamburgers for a year some time )

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