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I honestly think that they are on to something, but they can't really be sure if it works. Besides, they are testing on mice. We are different from mice, and we don't know if those mice were bioengineered to have allergies. If so, there might be a problem that exists in humans that is not present in mice. I am glad that they are at least trying, though.
This drug against peanut allergies is a very important step. This is important to the millions of people who have this allergy. Like Howard said, they are testing on mice, so that means it might now necessarily work(back to the animal testing argument). But this is a good discovery in the allergy area of science.
I agree with both Brandon F. and Howard. I know about this drug (My mom's an ER doc)and it has worked on 5 kids already. Another way of doing it other than using the drug is giving the patient maybe a millionth of a millimeter (or something extreme like that) of peanut protein. That's what I read in the newspaper a few months back. Anyway, I do think it's a big step for getting rid of peanut allergies. Who doesn't like a nice peanut butter sandwich?
I thought that this article was great. It is great that they are trying to find a cure for an allergy that so many people have. I agree with Howard. They are only testing on mice so that doesn't mean it will work on humans. Still they are making a big effort to help cure the peanut allergy.
i think the idea that a natural drug could help fight peanut allegies which are deadly towards some people is great but i would not test this brand new discovery to quickly i think they should really get a firm grasp of the results for people with peanut allergies are probably sensitive to certian things
This is a very cool article and each steep we take is finding a different cure. They are also testing on mice but I don't know how that can help with the different genetic code. This is a good article but I'm happy that they are able to go thought with this because I am actually allergic to peanuts but it was a good article.
It is nice that they are trying their hardest, but testing on mice won't generally work because the mice might have a different genetic code then we do, but this is a big step for people with peanut allergies.
Camille, another solution has worked on 5 kids already. They use some peanut protein. (VERY LITTLE!!!!)and continue to add more and more on.
This article was very interesting. I think that it is great that Dr. Li and his team have possibly found at least part of a new treatment for peanut allergies. But if we look at the facts like Howard said (and a lot of other people) it is not definite because mice are very different from humans, and they may have been injected with some element of the allergy that would not act the same way a vaccine does, which makes your body immune to it, but more just to MAKE the mice have allergies. This is a great step towards a possible drug against peanut, tree nut, fish and shellfish allergies. I hope, especially knowing people with these allergies, that somehow they work this out. It will be one of the greatest breakthroughs of history (in my opinion).
Hmmmmmmm. Does this sound like..... ANIMAL TESTING COULD CURE ALLERGIES? Noooooooooo. That would be "impossible"! I can't believe that they would use ugly, useless "animal testing" on such an important topic. NOT! This is just one piece of evidence that shows that animal testing can cure sicknesses and diseases. But I'm surprised that they only found an anti-allergy medicine now (too late!). It almost always work when they try this on mice.
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