Just to be pedantic, that's a monument to lab mice, not lab rats, for their use in genetic research experiments. If you know what happen to mice used in these

Just to be pedantic, that's a monument to lab mice, not lab rats, for their use in genetic research experiments. If you know what happen to mice used in these experiments then I'm sure you'll agree they deserve their monument. It's a bit worse than anxiety-related feelings but we do need things like cures to cancers, cystic fibrosis, etc. so IMHO ...it has to be done. So we try to do it as little as possible and minimise suffering as much as possible. Again, IMHO, it's also one of the ethical arguments for why all information from sequencing experiments should be in the public domain.