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Mice as Big Business in the Lab Trade
The mouse industry supplies research animals to major firms like The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor and Charles River Laboratories in Wilmington. Prices vary from nearly $200 for arthritic mice to about $100,000 for custom genetically modified specimens as researchers rely on mice to study Alzheimer’s, obesity, diabetes, cancer and other conditions. Rob Taft at Jackson maintains 2,680 strains, with embryos stored at ultra low temperatures, and researchers can order hundreds of diabetic or anemic mice for experiments.
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Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor
Maine
Charles River Laboratories
Wilmington
Mass
Terry Fisher
Charles Laboratories
Wilmington, Mass
Rob Taft
Tait
Biological Library of Congress
Jackson Lab
Taft
Reproductive Sciences
Roy Woychik
Charlie Chaney
Hnce
Gregor Mende
Mendel
Loilay
Japan
California
Deltagen
San Carlos
Calif
Artemis Pharmaceuticals
Cologne
Germany
PolyGene Transgenetics
Xenogen
Alameda
Lee Silver
Princeton University
Charles E. Hewett
National Institutes of Health
NIE
Nestagen
Lexicon Genetics
Woodlands
Texas
Chris Austin
National Institute of Health
Chemical Genomics Center
Austin
Brian Zambrowilcz
Lexicon
Zambrowicz