Fast Facts: Mice as Research Tools
Saturday, August 06, 2005
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MUTANT MILLIONS: Increasingly exotic bio-engineered mice are created with relative ease these days for research into all manner of diseases.
OF MICE AND MEN: Mice and humans are nearly identical genetically. Each species has roughly 25,000 genes, with just a few hundred genes differing between them.
HOW MANY, HOW MUCH: The U.S. repository for mutant mice boats nearly 3,000 different types and ships 2 million mice a year. A mutant mouse can cost up to $200.
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