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Loss of Australia’s largest lab animal supplier will leave ‘huge gap’

Closure of the Animal Resources Centre, a major source of rats and mice, is a blow to biomedical research, say scientists.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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Australia’s biggest supplier of mice and rats for research announced last week that it plans to shut down operations over the next 18 months — a decision that scientists say could have a devastating impact on biomedical research in the country.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01896-x

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  • Correction 10 July 2021: An earlier version of this story said that supplies from the ARC account for 80% of the rats and mice ordered by the Children’s Cancer Institute in Sydney. In fact that institute only uses mice, not rats. The text has been updated.

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