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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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Without mouse models, we may never have developed polio and meningitis vaccines, organ transplants, GLP-1 drugs, gene therapies , or any other number of transformative treatments. Today, somewhere on the order of 30 million rodents are used yearly in biomedical research in the U.S.