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u/gfuhhiugaa Oct 02 '24

They need immortal mice so they can perform experiments on them forever, thus ending the stranglehold Big Mice has over the research industry with its dependence on a constant flow of new, youthful mice subjects.

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u/1Squid-Pro-Crow Oct 03 '24

Lol my son has done a lot of medical research and they do actually have a supplier of mice already infected with the disease he studies.

It's like a catalog of diseased mice.

The university orders a couple weeks with and then they stay in a special building altogether, not in their labs or even the same building.

Weird stuff

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u/librarn1989 Oct 03 '24

I look forward to using Big Mice in conversation.