Jump in animal research in Canada generates debate on science ethics

There is a very special brown mouse in a small plastic cage on the table in Fabio Rossi’s lab at the University of B.C. The mouse carries the mutation for muscular dystrophy and is being used for biomedical research into human neuromuscular diseases.
The research requires that venom from the deadly Australian tiger snake be injected into the mouse’s muscle tissue with a fine syringe for study into its regenerative response. 
“It burns,” allows Rossi, a professor of m