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ClaraY Author
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A year ago
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Perhaps, but how does that explain that mice with removed ear hairs had breathing problems, wheras the mice with intact ear hairs did not?
Could be some unreported factor that the researcher overlooked. See, by injected "gentamicin", you're introducing a new variable that may not have been controlled in the experiment. The right thing to do would be to produce mice with the gene for hair cell production knocked out, leading to deafness from birth. I don't know exactly what the study was testing for, so I can't comment beyond a reasonable doubt.

The study was done by the same team of scientists who made the 2007 patent.

They were looking to confirm their hypothesis about the inner ear hair cells being important for breathing.
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A year ago
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They were looking to confirm their hypothesis about the inner ear hair cells being important for breathing.

Makes no sense to me given what I know.

Can you provide a link to the study?
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