• T156@lemmy.world
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            15 hours ago

            Usually, if the mouse is infected or mutated in a given manner, its innards would need to be removed and studied, to determine what effects the mutation/infection had on them. This kills the mouse.

            • SeekPie@lemm.ee
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              14 hours ago

              This kills the mouse.

              Couldn’t they just put them back?

              • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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                10 hours ago

                Nah it’s like how if you touch A baby bird it’s mom won’t take it back, the body rejects the insidey bits when it has human funk on them.

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              9 hours ago

              For some reason, I was under the impression not all infected mice were actually studied. Thanks so much for your kind reply.

              • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                It’s still a suffering animal, so we should get the most data we can out of every specimen. That should minimize the total amount of mice being used.

                Also only studying some mice can lead to biased results. Iirc in the pace trial participants who dropped out because the intervention worsened their condition where not included in the end result. With rats the researchers could just chose the healthiest ones and just claim they selected randomly.

                Rant:

                The pace trial was a horrible study on a chronic disease that was conducted by the british health system with the goal of denying care.
                The trial also had other systematic flaws like having a laxer definition of healthy at the end of the trial that at the beginning, meaning people who where sick enough to participate would be declared cured at the end even if nothing changed.
                This study is still used to denie people’s lived experience and just call them lazy.
                I don’t have a personal connection to any of this, but learning about it made me angry enough, that I must share this knowledge.

          • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            22 hours ago

            I mean, in my opinion skinny pigs have been mutated in a harmful way, just not as a result of whatever tests they were subjected to. But if you have a pet scrotum, you can knit it little sweaters so it isn’t constantly shivering