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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

I did histopathology for the research community, a whole bunch of different labs would send us samples at the end of studies and I would turn them into microscope slides and try to capture their area of interest for publication. I’ve seen a pretty wide variety of models at this point, it keeps things interesting!

As someone whose worked in research for years Canada has had massive brain drain to the states for a while now, why stay when you can make double-triple down south? I hope we offer stronger incentives and opportunity across the board and reverse course.

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