11/09/2012

Hurricane Sandy Claims Thousands of NYU Lab Mice

Hurricane Sandy battered cities along the East Coast last week, and scientists at New York University were left reeling after thousands of lab mice at a research facility drowned due to flooding from the storm. How will the loss of these animals impact scientific research?

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Gordon Fishell

Gordon Fishell is the associate director of New York University’s Neuroscience Institute in New York, New York.

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Denise Chow is a sci-tech editor at Live Science and a former associate producer for Science Friday.