Actually it’s used in everything, it’s available, it’s well studied, it’s cheap, and most importantly it grows fast in a lab, so it’s easy to work with…
I wish I was joking, but lots of in vitro human research is done on the poor women’s cancer cells when the research has nothing to do with cancer, it’s quite the confounder
they use a lot of other things… including living human cancer cells in a petri dish
I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
when researching cancer drugs, yeah
Actually it’s used in everything, it’s available, it’s well studied, it’s cheap, and most importantly it grows fast in a lab, so it’s easy to work with…
I wish I was joking, but lots of in vitro human research is done on the poor women’s cancer cells when the research has nothing to do with cancer, it’s quite the confounder
they use stem cells a lot for that sort of thing too
So we will become cancer
The reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.
How does that work?
Maybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way
well no, they kill cancer in petri dishes
It was a joke about selection pressure.