Oh, and we never killed mice - we "sacrificed" them (in the lab we said "sacked" for short). Yeah, it never sat particularly well with me. We and other labs st

Oh, and we never killed mice - we "sacrificed" them (in the lab we said "sacked" for short). Yeah, it never sat particularly well with me. We and other labs studied neurodegenerative diseases, so we studied a model form of those diseases by inducing it in rats. The Parkinson's lab adjacent to us gave their rats a drug that destroyed their dopaminergic neurons, we inhibited thiamine to cause severe memory impairment. Really horrible things, but I'm not sure that there's a good alternative if we want to study diseases so we can prevent or cure them in humans.