Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the lid. “When the…
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Biomedical research needs to re evaluate mouse models. We have generations of mouse model researchers who will justify their use for everything, ignoring almost no translation to humans.
Because it’s “harder” testing on other animals and going up the ladder without successful tests with mice, though in some cases in my experience, it is mostly for bureaucratic reasons…