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by qnleigh 25 days ago
> Behavioral testing showed that treated models performed significantly better on memory and recognition tasks.

"Treated models" - it sounds like they're trying really hard to hide the fact that this was all in mice. From the paper:

> Therefore, using a mouse model, this study investigated whether IN administration of hiPSC-NSC-EVs in late middle age can significantly reduce oxidative stress and curb microglia-mediated neuroinflammaging in the hippocampus.

Cool! But please be honest in your press releases.

2 comments

Ok, I've inmiced the title above. Thanks for catching this.
Love the verbification!
ctrl+f'd for 'mice', no results. I can think of no other word than deceit.
It’s very probably not deceit, it’s just biomedical research jargon from the original paper that was written for a scientist audience that didn’t get translated to a lay audience language for a sciencedaily/press release format.