How a New Breed of Rodents is Changing the Face of Science
By Maggie Koerth - Baker want a mouse that ’s resistant to anthrax but will get drunk well ? There ’s a science lab black eye designed for that . Need a computer mouse that can get Parkinson ’s disease but will never catch polio ? There ’s a computer mouse for that , too . The cage in rodents in today ’s labs are n’t the Numida meleagris pigs of yesteryear ....