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Health & Medicine / Mental Health

Can We Trust Research Done with Lab Mice?

New studies show that animals used in critical experiments may be out of their minds

by Barry Yeoman, Photography by Jeff Mermelstein

From the July 2003 issue, published online July 1, 2003


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