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Rats Taking Over from Mice in Labs

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Therefore, this Boston Globe article saddens me on both levels. Scientific advances over the last three years have now made it feasible to easily tinker with rat genes, creating the possibility of far better models of certain human diseases, and potentially shortening the time it takes to develop medications.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Just as lacewings and dragonflies keep mosquito populations in check, birds of prey eat rodents that can carry Lyme-bearing ticks, hantavirus, plague bacteria and other ills. Boston, Oct. 18, 2007 The writer is associate director, Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Epstein, M.D.