Hacker News Reader

I’m really starting to hate this trope, I think everyone should just assume “in mice” unless the title states “in humans” as that is a much rarer event for research papers to be at that stage than mice or other mammals.

People will assume what they will. I'd prefer a more explicit title.

I just don’t think commenting with “in mice” on every biology papers adds to and informs the discussion. Maybe headline wars could be on a separate thread for each article?

"In mice" isn't the whole story here.

"The authors found that OSK expression enhanced axon regrowth and cell survival in human neurons in vitro."

Granted, that's not actually restoring sight to an in vivo human patient just yet, but neither is it "in mice".

I'd like to see what happens if all the youth renewal strategies done on laboratory mice are applied to older, wild-caught mice of whatever variety is closest to lab mice.

I've heard the claim when calorie limiting applied to wild mice, they ... just die - they already have limited calories.

But just that leap might be a decent lesson.

Right? Can we get the title updated?

I previously posted this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4

Maybe because I included (in mice) in the title, it didn't get upvoted as much as this post.