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What went wrong with autism research? Let’s start with lab mice. from Vox - All RSS feed.

What went wrong with autism research? Let’s start with lab mice.

In the world of neuroscience research, the mouse reigns supreme: in the US alone, tens of millions of mice are studied as a proxy for the human brain in labs. They’re small, they breed quickly, and they’re relatively easy to genetically manipulate, making mice ubiquitous in biomedical science. When studying something fundamental to biology, like […]