fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIllegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in Californiawww.insider.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down15
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minus-squareChuymatt@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down1·11 months agoHere is my issue: they seem to be using ‘bio-engendered mice’ as a scare phrase. Nearly all mice in a research facility will be, everywhere. It’ve been weirder had they NOT been genetically modified.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·11 months agoI heard the mice were dosed with dihydrogen-oxide to make them more infectious!
minus-squareThortallmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYeah wild-type mice are present in labs as controls, but by far fewer in number to the modified organisms, apparently
Here is my issue: they seem to be using ‘bio-engendered mice’ as a scare phrase. Nearly all mice in a research facility will be, everywhere.
It’ve been weirder had they NOT been genetically modified.
I heard the mice were dosed with dihydrogen-oxide to make them more infectious!
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Yeah wild-type mice are present in labs as controls, but by far fewer in number to the modified organisms, apparently