*shakes head*
Never trust any drug predictions until it's past Phase I at minimum and preferably Phase II - only about 5% of them make it through, period.
First, while animal models are what researchers work with and are the best things that we have... they're models. To draw from my field - we'd've cured paralysis about 5 times now if stuff that worked in rats and mice actually worked in humans.
And it's not quite that safe - I found a couple clinical studies in which DCA was used in an attempt to treat other diseases - unfortunately, in sufficient doses it causes clinical peripheral nerve neuropathy (kills/damages the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord).
That's just a little bit of an issue to work around...
RMH
Never trust any drug predictions until it's past Phase I at minimum and preferably Phase II - only about 5% of them make it through, period.
First, while animal models are what researchers work with and are the best things that we have... they're models. To draw from my field - we'd've cured paralysis about 5 times now if stuff that worked in rats and mice actually worked in humans.
And it's not quite that safe - I found a couple clinical studies in which DCA was used in an attempt to treat other diseases - unfortunately, in sufficient doses it causes clinical peripheral nerve neuropathy (kills/damages the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord).
That's just a little bit of an issue to work around...
RMH