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Mice as discovery driver or how to be small, but help achieve great things
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Mice (17th century- current)
Some find them cute, some find them repulsive, and science finds them useful. Mice have been a model organism for a bit over a century and is by far the most used nowadays. Let’s find out what these little creatures did for scientific discoveries and learn cool facts about them at the same time.
Resources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00849-x
https://www.labome.com/method/Laboratory-Mice-and-Rats.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128165737000067
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3790571/
Cool facts: https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-mouse-in-research
Video: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/science/optogenetics-brain-social-behavior.html
Example failed animal trial: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964774/
Micronucleus test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronucleus_test
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