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Rodent Research Blocks Progress in Treating Chronic Disease

A study described in last week's Science Daily points to a problem that has been troubling me about diabetes research: the way that research relies on rodent models that are built on false assumptions about the human diseases they are supposed to model.You can read about the study describing severe problems with the mouse model for Muscular Dystrophy here:Science Daily: Mice Holding Back Muscular