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Published online 5 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-8
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Mouse and man agree to disagree
The rodent has downsides but the future looks furry.
Thanks to a single faulty gene, some children develop eye tumours. But mice engineered to carry an identical genetic error develop brain cancer instead.
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