In mice.
It really is a very good metric for preventing you to get sucked into hype that will 99.99 percent of the time result in exactly zero real world impact 10 years later.
Animal models are used in research. Is this news to you? Do you think people don’t know that?
In this context of social media it's very useful as a reminder.
This headline would potentially be Nobel worthy if in humans.
So it's not even generalizable to all mice, much less humans.
More studies are needed.