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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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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. Mice raised at five different animal facilities in Europe, under otherwise identical conditions , have “persistent differences in body weight” and behavior.

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