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🌏 Available in: English | 한국어 Hidden Heroes to Modern Medicine: The Mice Behind Medical Breakthroughs Long before a new treatment reaches its first patient, the scientific journey often begins with a carefully designed mouse model. ⏱ In 30 Seconds ✓ Mouse models allow researchers to study how genes, cells and biological pathways contribute to disease inside a living organism. ✓ Mice share many genes and biological processes with humans, while their genomes can be precisely modified to test cause and effect. ✓ Knockout, transgenic, conditional, reporter, humanised and patient-derived tumour models are designed to answer different scientific questions. ✓ Mouse models have contributed to major advances in cancer biology, immunology, infectious disease, blood-cell development and genetic disease. ✓ Mice are not miniature humans, so findings from mouse models must ultimately be tested against human biology and clinical evidence. Mouse models have played an...