Intentional variation increases result validity in mouse testing

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

For decades, the traditional practice in animal testing has been standardization, but a new study has shown that adding as few as two controlled environmental variables to preclinical mice tests can greatly reduce costly false positives, the number of animals needed for testing and the cost of pharmaceutical trials.

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