Also “mouse models”.

The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.

the only purpose of hacker news comments is to aggravate readers with overly reductive takes

Thanks, both of you, now please stop it.

They’re mice. I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about them.

For this particular research, it's possible as only 5% of mouse experiments become available to humans.

But a lot of life-saving medicaments and techniques started as mouse testings, including Penicillin, cancer drugs and the polio vaccine.