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Posted on Feb 18, 2004, 7 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Winters in Maine are cold, but the chill outside the Jackson Laboratory is nothing compared to the temperature inside the lab's tanks of liquid nitrogen. Eight round tanks cooled to 320 degrees below zero squat in a windowless basement room. Researchers are filling the tanks with mouse embryos, at a rate of 2,000 embryos a day.
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Winters in Maine are cold, but the chill outside the Jackson Laboratory is nothing compared to the temperature inside the lab's tanks of liquid nitrogen. Eight round tanks cooled to 320 degrees below zero squat in a windowless basement room. Researchers are filling the tanks with mouse embryos, at a rate of 2,000 embryos a day. The Jackson Lab, founded in 1929, is the world's largest supplier of mice to scientists around the world. But a growing part of the lab's business involves frozen embryos, not live mice.
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