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Flaws in the Mouse Model?

Today in Mice owes its existence to the practice of using model organisms - that is, rodents - to study human biology and diseases. Because mice share 85 percent of their genome in common with humans, the thinking has been that using these distant, furry cousins of ours in research can help scientists predict disease processes in people.