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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

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It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.

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Origins of the Lab Mouse

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A focus of Castle’s research at the time was establishing how widely Mendel’s laws applied, for which he needed a steady supply of mice varieties (though he also experimented with guinea pigs and rats). Abbie Lathrop was unafraid of rats and mice, character traits that made her something of an eccentric.