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[โ€“] GargleBlaster@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like the page is back up again, don't know why it returned dead when I tried to read it. Thanks for the link, I'll read it in the coming days.

I'm actually just finishing my masters in immunology, and one aspect of it I'll love (and sometimes dread) is exactly what you said. We know so much about the immune system and still so so little. I'm just always cautious about articles promising new therapies against cancer, because most of the time it only works in mice and fails to validate for humans. And I know some projects from friends and colleagues that got media attention and were greatly exaggerated compared to the actual findings.

What is your PhD thesis about? I'm interested in doing a PhD myself and wonder what other people in immunology worked on

[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

most of the time it only works in mice and fails to validate for humans

which is 99% of all mouse model research. And we keep doing it.