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Friday, January 8, 2010

The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals

The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals: "An anonymous reader writes 'Discover Magazine has this odd photo gallery in which they explain why certain animals are used in scientific research. Why are high-tech contact lenses always tried out in rabbits? Why do we study monogamy in prairie voles? Etc. They say of the 9 animals: 'Taken (or stitched) together, they form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans.''

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