It is true that Henry at his best, five years ago, was a human equivalent to the cheetah: fast, feline and driven by hunger.
The Australian research was conducted on mice who'd had their DNA tweaked: what the scientists have to do now is create a human equivalent that relies on a chemical component rather than genetic tampering.
The hamster CCGG dose (311 mg/kg/d) was converted from a human equivalent dose (HED) based on body surface area by the following formula from the US Food and Drug Administration: assuming a human weight of 60 kg, the HED for 2.5 (g/d) ÷ 60 (kg) = 0.042 × 7.4 = hamster dose of 311 mg/kg/d.
Recently, the gene responsible for the melanophore-specific golden zebrafish strain, Slc24a5, was shown to have a human equivalent that strongly correlates with skin colour.
Unless Cornyn is a modern, human equivalent of a Dodo.
Consequently, the potential applications for a human equivalent are extensive.
The S-D rat model from the RI colony could be considered a human-equivalent model, particularly for breast lesions (non-neoplastic, pre-neoplastic, and neoplastic), that will allow us to translate rodent data to humans in future research (Teitelbaum et al. 2015).
These OECD regulatory test protocols are stuck in the age of the light microscope, test a narrow and unrealistic portion of the dose response curve and relatively few end points, mostly fail to test toxicity during vulnerable development, and kill the animals being tested before most diseases develop (a human equivalent of ~ 60 years).
Thus, being a social individual is not equivalent to being a human being.
In contrast, the CD1c+ PB DC subset was shown by microarray and functional analysis to be an equivalent human population to the murine CD103-CD11b+ myeloid (possibly monocyte-derived) DCs [ 3].
