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baxtryesterday at 3:08 PM4 repliesview on HN

Mice smoke?


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theoreticalmalyesterday at 3:10 PM

Only the cool ones

manarthyesterday at 3:37 PM

  > "Mice smoke?"
The experiment summary:

  > "The team bred four strains of mice.
  >  They then exposed the mice to a single dose of the liver carcinogen diethylnitrosamine (DEN).
  >  DEN is found in tobacco smoke."
They simulated the "consequences" of smoking in mice.
pasc1878yesterday at 3:12 PM

When near the lab's Bunsen burner.

kraquepypeyesterday at 3:18 PM

Only if they grew up near a BBQ joint