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Honestly! You gotta pull out a mortgage these days to eat at wild wing!

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Not universal, for example we use zebrafish for spine defect models since mouse spine has an odd curve/hunch that doesn’t line up as well. But for general metabolism/pathology/embryonic development they do a great job of mimicking human disease under the microscope. Its not always 1:1 but we learn a lot from these little guys.

They probably induce it then treat it to see what happens

I spent a career in research and I can tell you that mice are excellent models for discovery, AMA