Health News from Medical News Today: What Is A Laboratory Mouse? Why Do Laboratories Test On Mice?

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. What Is A Laboratory Mouse? Why Do Laboratories Test On Mice? 31 May 2011, 8:00 am Mice and humans share about 95 percent of their genes, and mice are recognized around the world as the leading experimental model for studying human biology and disease. But, says Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill, Ph.D., researchers can learn even more "now that we really know what a laboratory mouse is, genetically speaking." Churchill and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, leading an international research team, created a genome-wide, high-resolution map of most of the inbred mouse strains used today... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.