- A three-year project to create a detailed 3D ‘atlas’ of the brain of a lab mouse is now finished.
- The resulting model will help scientists better understand the effects of treatments and testing conducted using the rodents.
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You probably don’t think about mice all that often. If you have a few of them running around your house or apartment, that’s another story, but the modern mouse plays a larger role in your life than you may know. Mice are the test subjects of the scientific world, and whether they (or we) like it or not, countless drugs and treatments eventually made it to store shelves and pharmacy counters thanks to early testing conducted on tiny little mice.
Lab mice are bred specifically for the purpose of testing, and they are often the first animals to feel the effects of drugs used to treat everything from Alzheimer’s to back pain and everything in between. With that in mind, it makes sense that researchers would want to know as much about mouse brains as possible, and a three-year project just resulted in the most complete atlas of a mouse brain ever created.
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Scientists mapped an entire mouse brain, and the results are mesmerizing originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 7 May 2020 at 21:09:24 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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