Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California

https://lemmy.nowsci.com/post/225465

Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California - nowsci

Here is my issue: they seem to be using ‘bio-engendered mice’ as a scare phrase. Nearly all mice in a research facility will be, everywhere.

It’ve been weirder had they NOT been genetically modified.

I heard the mice were dosed with dihydrogen-oxide to make them more infectious!

they seem to be using ‘bio-engendered mice’ as a scare phrase

Did you read the article? It says what they were bio-engineered for.

Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.

Yeah wild-type mice are present in labs as controls, but by far fewer in number to the modified organisms, apparently