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Researchers often use mice in the early stages of their work to study how diseases develop and spread through individual and groups of mammals. Mice are again used to evaluate the effectiveness of potential pharmaceutical treatments. There are shortcomings to the use of mice as stand-ins for humans, as humans are far more complicated than mice. In Alzheimer’s research, many pharmaceuticals have shown great promise when used on mouse populations, but those successes have not been replicated in humans.
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