No Piper Needed As Mice Move Into KU
Harry Elliott reports on the Kansas University Mouse Laboratory beneath Memorial Stadium funded by a Public Health Service grant. When complete next month it will house more than 10,000 mice in air conditioned stainless cages with self feeding troughs and self watering provisions. Dr John Wier leads zoology with Dr Donald W Bailey as senior investigator overseeing Bailey's hereditary study. the 1,000 current lab residents are part of Bailey's project.
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Much Ado About a Mouse Lab Procedure
The University uses prepared pellet food and a steam cleaning dairy bottle washer to keep cages sanitary for mice. Dr Wier notes the focus is on what is done with the mice, with numbers ranging from 10,000 down to about half that. The lab contains three mouse rooms plus a lab, office, storage and a reversed light room to control day night cycles.
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KU plans to maintain over 2,560 cages housing up to five mice each in its lab to supply bred strains for cancer research, mainly to KU labs and the Iee Center in Kansas City, with potential future sales to other schools. AT&T reports 1957 fourth quarter net income of 178.35 million dollars and annual earnings of 985.86 million dollars.
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