A miracle enough: the power of mice.

Nature medicine ·Vol. 1 ·No. 3 ·1995-03-00 ·Pages 215-20

Paigen K

Abstract

"A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels" Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman The mouse has become our experimental surrogate. It is the creature we turn to to do the experiments, so important in reaching an understanding of ourselves, that are either technically impossible or morally inconceivable in human subjects.

MeSH Terms

Animals Culture Techniques Disease Models, Animal Genes Humans Mice/physiology Mice, Mutant Strains Mice, Transgenic

Authors & Affiliations

1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Paigen K

Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, MA 04609, USA.

Article Info

Journal

Nature medicine

Abbr.

Nat Med

ISSN

1078-8956

DOI

10.1038/nm0395-215

Published

1995-03-00

Pages

215-20

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

9502015

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1038/nm0395-215 View journal details

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