There are some diseases and cell processes which are just no possible to study in humans. In this case one option is to use a mouse model instead. Genetically, mice are very similar to humans and they are easy to breed which is why for a lot of scientists they are the animal used. Mouse models can be quite varied depending on what they are used for. A lot of mouse models involved engineering the mice to knockout a gene. I have recently completed a project over the summer where I was using mice that had a hormone receptor was knocked out and we were studying the role of this hormone in development.
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There are some diseases and cell processes which are just no possible to study in humans. In this case one option is to use a mouse model instead. Genetically, mice are very similar to humans and they are easy to breed which is why for a lot of scientists they are the animal used. Mouse models can be quite varied depending on what they are used for. A lot of mouse models involved engineering the mice to knockout a gene. I have recently completed a project over the summer where I was using mice that had a hormone receptor was knocked out and we were studying the role of this hormone in development.
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