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Designer Mice Made to Order
blackbearnh writes "CNN is reporting about the world of designer mice. No, not the kind you click, the kind that scamper around and eat cheese. An effort is underway to produce mice with each of the 20-25,000 individual mouse genes "knocked out", which could lead to novel new treatments for humans. It turns out that after fully sequencing the mouse genome, the little fellas are almost identical to humans. From the article: 'A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.'"
I'd rather we experiment on humans than on mice. Less chance for a mistake that way.
the only reason your testing drugs on animals is so you can keep putting poison in foods just eliminate the poisons and you wont need to test on animals. all this from someone who could care a less for animals i just see it as it is shoot every animal on the planet im a vegitarian anyway ever since they started plastic coating meat and i feel no compassion toward animals anyway to be honest. oh and for the record im from the uk we dont produce the poisonsi n our foods our government just lets you import them to us without informing our population of the dangers due to backhanders from your country streight to the pockets of our politicians. sacking our politicians is allways a good thing but doing it for this reason makes no sense the problem will still be there poison in our foods and another corrupt government. stop experimenting on animals and put all that money in to informing the public of the poison in their in their plastic food. oh and sorry for the bad punctuation i hope you understand for all the other peaple on slashdot fuck it i dont care so long as you personaly can decypher all i just typed and can see my point.
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