laboratory animal

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The effort cost the couple about $50,000 a year to buy rodents from pet stores, laboratory animal dealers and feed stores to nourish their birds of prey.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2023

The FDA said this week that multiple reports in laboratory, animal and human settings suggests multiple ways in which monkeypox could develop resistance to the therapy.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Unlike laboratory animal subjects such as fruit flies and mice, companion dogs are affected by their owners’ environmental and social factors, such as secondhand cigarette smoke, lawn pesticides and access to health care.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

The collaboration at the institute includes both publication and secret military projects including classified research and laboratory animal experiments.

From Washington Times • May 4, 2021

Later in the nineteenth century, scientists will discover that a weak electrical current applied to the exposed brain of a laboratory animal will make certain muscles twitch involuntarily and certain senses sharpen or go dead.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman