Study finds a gene in fat that plays key role in insulin resistance

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It's the poor bloody mice again. That whole experiment is an exercise in animal cruelty. I don't care that if you delete a gene you get insulin resistance. Folk who have insulin resistance don't have deleted genes. It's the casual way they describe all this fiddling about with sentient creatures that annoys me.
 
Would make a lot more sense were they to be allowed to do any such experiments on pigs - after all are humans not 'long pigs' ? - but the furore with the animal rights brigade prevent such things. I can't decry experiments on animals out of hand - if it hadn't been for those dogs (which Banting Best & McLeod experimented on) which I actually feel guilty about (must have had utterly desperate deaths, poor things) even though my parents were both little children at the time so no hint of me then - maybe I wouldn't be alive right now? Nobody can tell.

They sure must know one helluva lot of things about mice they didn't know, by now though what good it does for the human race, except are they still using them to clone eg (outer) earoles for humans?
 
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