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Tech News August 11, 2014 •

Tech News August 11, 2014

A Mouse with the Same Cancer as You

For $12,000, a company grafts a patient’s cancer into rodents and tests drugs on them.

At a laboratory in Baltimore, hairless mice kept in racks of plastic crates are labelled with yellow cards, each identifying a person fighting cancer. These mice are cancer “avatars”—the lumpy tumors visible under their skin come from actual patients.