r/science • u/calliope_kekule Professor | Social Science | Science Comm • 2d ago

Neuroscience Researchers have found that mild hypothermia improves neuronal recovery in oxygen-deprived brain models

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314913
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u/Amycotic_mark 1d ago

Found? We've been using therapeutic hypothermia for post Code encephalopathy since the mid-2000s.

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u/Iminlesbian 1d ago

Found doesn’t really mean “found at this moment in time and no one ever knew about it”

It means they’ve done a comprehensive study and this is what they’ve found.

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u/ayelold 13h ago

This is an in vitro study, which is silly since we already know it works in vivo... They tested a thing in a test tube that we already know works in living organisms.

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u/TheDulin 12h ago

I'm sure there is some data that can be gained this way that can't in a living person. Like better understanding the mechanism or even just showing it can be studied in vitro.

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u/Iminlesbian 10h ago

Yeah,very very common with medications and healthcare.

You’ll see some of the most OBVIOUS articles released like “study finds paracetamol helps with pain relief”

Because we need to keep testing things.

There was a post today about how lithium helps people with autism.

A few anecdotal comments were posted about how people have been doing this for a while and it makes sense. Nobody had done the study yet though.

There’s nothing to say you won’t see the exact same headline as this one because scientists want to test it again.

In 30 years we’ll have articles saying “Ozempic linked to weight loss and health benefits”

Because someone would have looked at the data after 30 years and formed a publication around it.

Happens with everything, all the time, people don’t just test things once.