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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

How to create an animal model

June 28, 2004 7:00 AM UTC

What's in a Model?

Mice have been used as laboratory animals since the beginning of the last century, but significant advances toward more sophisticated animal models were made only in the 1980s, when geneticists created the first murine pluripotent embryonic stem cell line. This technique led to the first knockout mice, from which a particular gene of interest had been removed. ...