Scientific breakthrough - mice go grey when you torture them.
Apparently they were being tortured for some other reason (What? Why?) when the breakthrough was made.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51208972
"Pain in mice triggered the release of adrenaline and cortisol, making their hearts beat faster and blood pressure rise, affecting the nervous system and causing acute stress.
This process then sped up the depletion of stem cells that produced melanin in hair follicles.
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And while carrying out experiments on mice, they stumbled across evidence this was the case.
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This leaves the door open for scientists to help delay the onset of grey hair by targeting CDK with a drug."
I kept hamsters for many years - sometimes they had accidents and sometimes they were ill but when recovered they looked pretty much good as new.
Why and what kind of a thing do you have to be doing to a small animal to 'stumble across' their response to pain?
Apparently they were being tortured for some other reason (What? Why?) when the breakthrough was made.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51208972
"Pain in mice triggered the release of adrenaline and cortisol, making their hearts beat faster and blood pressure rise, affecting the nervous system and causing acute stress.
This process then sped up the depletion of stem cells that produced melanin in hair follicles.
...
And while carrying out experiments on mice, they stumbled across evidence this was the case.
...
This leaves the door open for scientists to help delay the onset of grey hair by targeting CDK with a drug."
I kept hamsters for many years - sometimes they had accidents and sometimes they were ill but when recovered they looked pretty much good as new.
Why and what kind of a thing do you have to be doing to a small animal to 'stumble across' their response to pain?