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biology department to maintain their colony
of laboratory dcermice.
The grant is to help establish USC as a
resource for dccrmicc for universities nation
wide. Aoout six universities use clecrmice lor
research. USC will sell the mice 10 other
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"Hopefully, when the grant runs out in
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Wallace Dawson said.
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has its own pedigree and number. We can
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"The only disadvantages arc that they are
a lot more active and arc a lot harder to
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The deermice was first used for research in
1915. Scientists discovered deermice are
Highly resistanl to imection.
"When regular mice are given mcdication
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always kills the mice, too," Dawson said.
"We are proud of the way we arc able to
keen our mice very healthy.",
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