50 years ago, diabetic mice offered hope for understanding human disease
Excerpt from the August 12, 1967 issue of Science News
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MOUSE GUIDES Diabetic mice with mutations in the leptin receptor gene grow much larger and fatter (left) than mice that don’t have the mutations (right). These diabetic, or db/db, mice were first described 50 years ago and have been helping scientists study the disease ever since.
The Jackson Laboratory