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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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After reading dozens of papers on this topic, I can’t help but feel that I wasted part of my life injecting chubby mice with drugs. Mice and rats account for 95 percent of all animals used in biomedical research. For every 5,000 drug compounds tested in mice, five move into human studies. Nobody really knows why.

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