Premature baby...mice?
This is the kind of press release that makes me want to hurl
flowerpots at closed windows. The title, "Constant lighting may
disrupt development of preemies' biological clocks" would lead most
reasonable folks to the conclusion that premature babies were somehow
involved in the article.
But no. It's about baby mice, which are supposed to be comparable to
human preemies because they're born at an earlier stage of
development. I can't comment on that - obviously the funders of the
study thought it was a fair assumption. But c'mon, if the study did
not in fact look at premature human babies, then don't put it in the
title, because some people won't read any further than that, and we
frankly don't know yet whether the results can be extrapolated.
biological clocks
premature babies
constant lighting
press release
posted by Emily DeVoto, Ph.D., @ 8/27/2006 10:05:00 PM 0 comments
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